Research Engineer / Scientist (Robot Learning)

World Labs

$250K — $350K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in manipulation, locomotion, or robot policy training.
  • Strong robotics foundation and expertise in neural network designs and sim-real transfer.
  • In-depth experience with various robot policy designs (e.g., VLA, WAM, diffusion).
  • Proficient in Python and/or C++ with hands-on systems development experience.
  • Familiarity with deep learning frameworks, especially PyTorch, and low-level robotics controllers.
  • Proven track record of managing projects in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
  • Demonstrated ownership with a focus on stability, correctness, and improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement advanced robot learning systems focusing on imitation and reinforcement learning.
  • Research, prototype, and productionize robotic policies for enhanced speed and precision.
  • Develop training pipelines focused on sim-to-real transfer and optimization techniques.
  • Collaborate with teams to minimize discrepancies between simulation and real robot deployment.
  • Create end-to-end workflows for data generation and evaluation of robot policies.
  • Optimize policy performance to meet scalability demands in production environments.
  • Diagnose and address failure modes in simulation and real-world applications.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work with a high-caliber team enhancing technical skills.
  • Opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research in robotics and machine learning.
  • Mentorship and support for professional growth within the organization.
Full Job Description
Role Overview

We're looking for strong Robot Learning Engineer/Scientist to develop and advance state-of-the-art methods for developing robot policies. This role is focused on training end-to-end policies with an emphasis on sim-to-real transfer, robust performance, scalable training and inference pipelines.

This is a hands-on, research-driven role for someone working at the intersection of robotics and machine learning. You'll collaborate closely with research scientists, ML engineers and system teams to translate robotic policy and its stack into production-ready systems.
What You Will Do:
  • Design and implement modern robot learning systems, including imitation learning, reinforcement learning for manipulation.
  • Research, prototype, and productionize robotic policies with a focus on speed, precision and scalability.
  • Develop and improve training pipelines for sim-to-real transfer, including domain randomization, system identification, real-sim alignment.
  • Collaborate with simulation and infrastructure teams to minimize sim-to-real gap and ensure learning methods integrate cleanly with real-robot deployment stacks.
  • Build end-to-end training and evaluation workflows for robot policies, from large-scale data generation to scale up training and evaluation.
  • Optimize policy performance across the stack, including training speed, inference latency, data generation efficiency to support large scale production constraints.
  • Diagnose failure modes in simulation and real-world rollouts, design principled solutions to improve robustness, efficiency and generalization.
  • Contribute to technical direction by proposing new research ideas, mentoring teammates, and helping set best practices for robot learning across the organization.
Key Qualifications:
  • 6+ years of experience working on manipulation, locomotion, robot policy training, or related areas.
  • Strong foundation in robotics, neural network designs, sim-real transfer.
  • Deep experience with robot policy designs (e.g., VLA, WAM, diffusion).
  • Proficiency in Python and/or C++, with hands-on experience building research or production robotic systems.
  • Experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch) and low-level robotic controller.
  • Proven ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and drive projects from concept through deployment.
  • A strong sense of ownership and engineering rigor: you care deeply about correctness, stability, and measurable improvements.
  • Enjoy collaborating with a small, high-caliber team and raising the technical bar through thoughtful design, experimentation, and code quality.


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