Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer

Proven track record as a robotics engineer, forward deployed engineer or technical founder

Experience working directly with customers, iterating on solutions and providing tailored support for serving generative AI models

Hands-on experience with action / VLA models and the surrounding open ecosystem (e.g. π0/π0.5, LeRobot), including imitation/reinforcement learning or policy learning

Ability to work on a broad class of engineering problems, from model hosting and backend engineering to building intuitive frontends and UI

Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with non-technical stakeholders internally and externally, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms to both technical and non-technical audiences

Prior knowledge about diffusion models and/or flow matching, and relevant fine tuning and distillation techniques

Experience with inference optimizations for transformer based machine learning models

Proven ability to architect solutions in complex enterprise environments

Contributed to open-source projects, in particular in the space of diffusion models, robotics, or simulation

Experience with cloud platforms and state of the art deployment solutions

We’re a distributed team with real offices that people actually use. Depending on your role, you’ll either join us in Freiburg or SF at least 2 days a week (or one full week every other week), or work remotely with a monthly in-person week to stay connected. We’ll cover reasonable travel costs to make this possible. We think in-person time matters, and we’ve structured things to make it accessible to all. We’ll discuss what this will look like for the role during our interview process.

Obsessed. We are a frontier research lab. The science has to be right, the understanding deep, the product beautiful.

Low Ego. The work speaks. The best idea wins, no matter who said it. Credit is shared. Nobody is above any task.

Bold. We take the ambitious bet. We ship, we do not wait for conditions to be perfect.

Kind. People over politics. We treat each other with genuine warmth. Agency without empathy creates chaos.

If this sounds like work you’d enjoy, we’d love to hear from you.