O wakacie
The company is hiring a Senior VLA Pre-training Engineer to develop foundation models for humanoid robot behavior. The role covers multimodal model training, distributed infrastructure, simulation validation, and deployment to production robots.
Company and project
The client is a fast-growing humanoid robotics startup building robots for real industrial environments, including manufacturing, logistics, warehouses, and other large-scale physical operations.
The company has 30,000 pre-orders globally, contracts with a major European industrial manufacturer, and successful pilots with global engineering leaders in automotive and industrial automation.
Responsibilities
- Pre-train and fine-tune VLA models on large-scale multimodal datasets.
- Build and maintain data pipelines for collection, curation, and synthetic data generation.
- Design distributed training infrastructure.
- Validate policies in simulation before real-world deployment.
- Work with simulation engineers, data scientists, and embedded teams.
- Ship models that directly power production robots.
Conditions
Compensation is £150,000–£230,000 gross per year, based on experience.
The position is based in London and is 100% onsite, with daily access to robots, labs, and prototypes.
Relocation support is available up to £8,000, along with Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship.
Benefits include private healthcare, an 8% pension contribution, 23 days of paid time off, and equity.
Nice to have
- Robotics background.
- Sim-to-real experience.
- Experience with OpenVLA or similar VLA frameworks.
Application
Applicants should send a direct message with 3–5 lines about their VLA or LLM pre-training experience, distributed training scale, and robotics background.