Nimble Robotics
AI Robotics Research Engineer
$180K–$220K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Apr 19, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Education
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Robotics or Computer Science.
About the job
Develop and deploy robotic foundation models and reinforcement-learning systems for manipulation, mobility, and multi-agent robot fleets.
What you'll do
- Develop and train diffusion policies, VLMs, and multi-agent deep RL policies.
- Build data collection pipelines and design data annotation and labeling.
- Support implementation of models into production systems.
What they ask for
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Robotics or Computer Science.
- Experience training deep learning models for robotic manipulation or mobility.
- Experience with real robotic hardware, simulation, and developing simulation environments.
- Experience collecting custom datasets and training on open-source datasets.
Nice to have
- Strong track record of publishing papers and/or deploying real-world applications.
- Experience with system architecture, design, and development.
Pay
USD 180,000 - USD 220,000 per year (salary range)
Tools
diffusion policies, VLMs, multi-agent deep RL
AI focus
Design, develop, train, and implement robotic foundation models, Vision-Language-Action Models, general-purpose robotic AI models, and reinforcement-learning algorithms controlling multi-agent robot fleets.
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