Tech Lead, Robotic AI Model

Data Pipeline & Curation

Simulation & Sim-to-Real Transfer

Evaluation & Deployment

Research & Innovation

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a closely related field
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in robot learning, including imitation learning, behavior cloning, or visuomotor policy training on real or simulated robots
• Deep expertise in at least one post-training paradigm: SFT on robot demonstrations, RL-based policy optimization, or diffusion/flow-matching policy training
• Strong PyTorch skills with experience training and debugging models at scale; familiarity with distributed training (FSDP, DeepSpeed)
• Practical experience with robot simulation platforms (Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, PyBullet, or SAPIEN) and sim-to-real workflows
• Understanding of action representations for robotics: continuous control, discrete tokenization, action chunking, and diffusion-based action generation
• Solid Python engineering; comfortable working with ROS/ROS2, real-time control systems, and robot hardware integration
• Ability to independently drive projects from research prototype to real-robot deployment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience fine-tuning VLA models such as π₀, OpenVLA, RT-2, Octo, or similar generalist robot policies
• Hands-on experience with real robot platforms: humanoids, bi-manual arms (ALOHA), mobile manipulators, or dexterous hands
• Experience with large-scale teleoperation data collection systems and robot fleet management
• Familiarity with RLHF/DPO/GRPO applied to robotic policy alignment and human preference learning
• Experience building or contributing to robot learning infrastructure (LeRobot, robomimic, openpi, etc.)
• Publications at top robotics or ML venues (CoRL, RSS, ICRA, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)
• Knowledge of on-device model optimization: TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, model pruning, and edge deployment for embodied AI

Salary Range

• ($150,000-$180,000 DOE), plus benefits and incentive plans

Perks + Benefits

• Healthcare + dental + vision benefits (Free for you/discounted for family)
• 401(k) options
• Casual dress code + relaxed work environment
• Culturally diverse, progressive atmosphere
• Faraday Future is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.