Helix AI Engineer (Robot Learning)
Figure5 months ago
San Jose, CA, United States
Hybrid
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)
Job Description
Job Description
We are looking for a Helix AI Engineer, Robot Learning with a strong robotics learning background to help develop and improve our visuomotor manipulation policies, with a heavy emphasis on real-robot deployment.
- Design, train, evaluate, and deploy learning-based visuomotor policies for humanoid robot manipulation
- Develop manipulation behaviors such as grasping, pick-and-place, object reorientation, door opening, bimanual manipulation, and basic assembly
- Apply and extend techniques including behavior cloning, reinforcement learning, and VLA reasoning
- Train models that are robust to real-world challenges such as sensor noise, partial observability, contact dynamics, and environment variability
- Own the full pipeline from data collection on real robots to model training, evaluation, and deployment
- Work closely with simulation and digital twin tooling where useful, while prioritizing real-world performance and transfer
- Collaborate with perception, controls, systems, and hardware teams to integrate policies into a full autonomy stack
- Evaluate tradeoffs between learning-based and classical approaches and make principled design decisions
- Write high-quality, well-tested software that ships to and runs reliably on physical humanoid robots
- Partner with integration and testing teams to continuously improve robustness, performance, and deployment velocity
Required Skills
contact dynamics
robot learning
reinforcement learning
simulation
behavior cloning
data collection
software development
VLA reasoning
integration testing
sensor noise management
digital twin tooling
visuomotor manipulation
partial observability