Drimva

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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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)