Hybrid Robotics Machine Learning Engineer – Platforms for Vision Language Action Foundation Models

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About the role

  • 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

Robotics Machine Learning Engineer – Platforms for Vision Language Action Foundation Models

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$176,000 - $264,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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