Aktoria Robotics
Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models)
$450K–$600K
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
About the job
Trains and fine-tunes vision-language-action and robot foundation models, evaluates data and scaling, and publishes research and benchmarks.
What you'll do
- Train and fine-tune VLAs and robot foundation models.
- Run data-quality ablations and scaling studies; curate and filter data, define formats, and evaluate on real robots.
- Publish papers and benchmarks.
What they ask for
- Experience training IL/VLA policies at scale.
- First-author publications at CoRL, ICRA, IROS, RSS, or NeurIPS, or equivalent strong open-source work.
Pay
$450K - $600K (base salary)
AI focus
Training and fine-tuning VLAs and robot foundation models, including policy training, data evaluation, and real-robot evaluation.
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