Job Description: Robotics Machine Learning Engineer

Position Overview

Persona AI is developing and commercializing a multi-purpose humanoid robot for manufacturing and other industries. Persona and its staff have a long history in humanoid research and development and are positioned to be a commercial leader in bringing these capable machines to market. If you're passionate about cutting-edge technology and want to be part of a world-class team that's driving the future of manufacturing and humanoids, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for a Robotics Machine Learning Engineer to drive our machine learning strategy. We are primarily interested in candidates who have developed and released products to market, but can be flexible depending on aptitude and energy. As one of the inaugural Machine Learning Engineers at Persona, you will have an incredible opportunity to get in at the beginning to shape the design and development of Persona’s humanoid robot.

• Location Type: Not specified
• Job Type: FullTime
• Salary: Not specified
• Company: Persona AI

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on the design and development of the Persona ML software stack and support its application in manipulation, navigation, locomotion, and perception.
• Work with the ML team to craft and execute on a comprehensive plan for the development of machine learning models, keeping up to date with the state of the art in research and development.
• Work with the team to develop, test, and deploy software, machine learning pipelines, and data collection pipelines.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of models in the real world.
• Collaborate with Universities and other companies.
• Collaborate in attracting, nurturing and growing the machine learning and autonomy teams.

Requirements

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in machine learning applied to robotics.
• Deep Learning Frameworks: Experience with deep learning frameworks (Pytorch, JAX, TensorFlow, etc.).
• Cloud Computing: Experience with cloud computing to develop models, store data, etc. (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Robotics Research: Strong understanding of the state of the art research in robot learning (behavior cloning for manipulation, reinforcement learning for locomotion, world models, etc.).
• Real-World Deployment: Understanding of the challenges of deploying neural network models in the real world.
• Approach Experience: Experienced in deploying both traditional and learning based approaches for robotics.
• Software Skills: Capable of writing high quality software.
• Environment: Thrive in fast paced and ambiguous environments.
• Thinking Style: Strong first principles thinker.

Nice to Haves

• Education: An advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in computer science, robotics, machine learning, or another related field.
• Publications: Published papers at top ML/Robotics conferences (ICML, ICRA, CoRL, RSS, NeurIPS).
• Deployment Experience: Have deployed robots, collected large amounts of data, and trained large neural networks that work in production environments.

Company Information

Persona AI embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.