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Toyota Research Institute · 11 hours ago

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

Los Altos, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$176K/yr - $264K/yr

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is dedicated to improving the quality of human life through innovative research in mobility and robotics. They are seeking a Robotics Machine Learning Engineer to develop infrastructure and support researchers in creating foundation models for robotics, focusing on general-purpose robots capable of dexterous tasks.

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Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

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 tools for experiment tracking, logging, visualization, and leaderboard management using systems like Weights & Biases, MLflow, or ClearML

Build scalable pipelines for heterogeneous multimodal data (images, text, video, touch, depth, proprioception)

Qualification

PythonPyTorchHardware experienceLarge-scale data handlingCommunication protocolsContinuous integrationResearch experiencePrototypingSoft skills

Required

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

Preferred

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)

Annual cash bonus structure

Company

Toyota Research Institute

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Toyota Research Institute is an R&D enterprise with an initial focus on artificial intelligence and robotics.

Founded in 2016

Palo Alto, California, USA

201-500 employees

http://www.tri.global

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