As a Senior Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer, you will shape the next generation of autonomous ground systems. You will design and imple…
Senior Robot Learning Engineer (Vision-Language-Action Models)
Location: Bristol (On-Site)
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Salary: Dependent on Experience (DOE)
The Opportunity
We're recruiting on behalf of a rapidly growing robotics and AI company seeking a Senior Robot Learning Engineer to develop and deploy advanced Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and large behaviour models onto real-world robotic platforms.
This is a rare opportunity to work on advanced robot intelligence systems with access to production hardware, large-scale datasets and significant cloud compute resources.
Rather than spending years building infrastructure from scratch, you'll focus on improving robot intelligence and deploying those improvements into real-world environments.
The Role
You'll be responsible for developing, training and deploying advanced robot learning systems that enable increasingly capable manipulation and autonomous behaviours.
Working alongside robotics, perception and infrastructure teams, you'll help shape the future of intelligent robotic systems.
Key Responsibilities
Design, train and deploy large behaviour models
Develop and improve Vision-Language-Action systems
Scale multi-task manipulation policies
Improve model robustness and generalisation
Extend imitation learning and reinforcement learning pipelines
Deploy learned policies onto physical robotic platforms
Develop sim-to-real training and evaluation workflows
Conduct experiments to improve robot performance in real-world environments
Requirements
MSc, PhD or equivalent industry experience in Robotics, AI, Machine Learning or related field
Demonstrated experience deploying learned policies on physical robotic systems
Behaviour Cloning
Diffusion Policies
Vision-Language-Action Models
Reinforcement Learning for Manipulation
Strong PyTorch experience
Excellent Python software engineering skills
Strong experimental design and evaluation capabilities
Desirable Experience
Humanoid or bi-manual manipulation systems
Diffusion Transformer architectures
ACT and VLA architectures
Foundation models such as CLIP or DINOv2
MuJoCo, Isaac Sim or ManiSkill
RL fine-tuning techniques
3D perception and policy conditioning
What's on Offer
Salary dependent on experience
Equity opportunities
Private healthcare
Significant cloud compute resources
Conference and professional development budget
Access to real-world robotic platforms
Opportunity to deploy advanced AI into production robotics environments
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As a Senior Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer, you will shape the next generation of autonomous ground systems. You will design and imple…