Machine Learning Engineer developing infrastructure and supporting researchers in foundation model development for robotics at Toyota Research Institute (TRI). Focusing on creating general-purpose robots capable of dexterous tasks.
Responsibilities
Develop our hardware platform, making sure the robots and software stack are state-of-the-art, operational, and continuously improved with new functionalities.
Build APIs and systems for high-throughput inference and logging in simulation and on real robot platforms.
Design metrics pipelines for quantitative and qualitative evaluation.
Build scalable pipelines for heterogeneous multimodal data (images, text, video, touch, depth, proprioception).
Requirements
Hardware experience on robots
Communication protocol experience (ROS, WebSocket, RPC…)
Strong software engineering skills in **Python**, **PyTorch**, and distributed systems.
Experience with large-scale data handling, including streaming, preprocessing, and storage of video or sensor data.
A “make it happen” attitude and comfort with fast prototyping.
A passion for robotics and development grounded in important fundamental problems.
Continuous integration
Familiarity with modern ML efficiency frameworks (e.g., FSDP, DeepSpeed, XLA, Ray, Hugging Face Accelerate).
Experience with machine learning and familiarity with large multi-modal datasets and models.
Experience working in a research environment, published research papers, open-source projects
Benefits
medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) eligibility
paid time off benefits (including vacation, sick time, and parental leave)
an annual cash bonus structure
Job title
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