AI Resident

RoboForce•Milpitas, CA

2d•$10,000 - $10,000•Onsite

About The Position

RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI–powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The company’s robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability. The AI Residency Program is designed for exceptional early-career researchers and engineers who want to tackle some of the hardest problems in robotics and AI. As a resident, you will work alongside a deeply technical team on core challenges in embodied intelligence, including Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, world models, reinforcement learning, simulation, and real-world robot learning. This is a hands-on residency for people who want to do ambitious work with real consequences: building learning systems that connect perception, reasoning, and action in service of capable, deployable robots. What makes this program different is the direct connection between research and real-world deployment. Residents work with actual RoboForce robots, iterate quickly between simulation and physical execution, and contribute to systems designed for real use. The problems are hard, the standards are high, and the goal is to build systems that matter outside the lab. As an AI Resident, you may contribute across several core areas: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for general-purpose robotic behavior, World Models for predictive modeling, planning, and long-horizon decision-making, World Action Models for jointly modeling action and environment dynamics, Simulation and sim-to-real transfer for scalable training, evaluation, and data generation, Reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and policy optimization for embodied agents, Multimodal learning across vision, language, proprioception, force, and action, Learning systems for manipulation and real-world embodied interaction.

Requirements

Master’s, or PhD student, recent graduate, or early-career researcher/engineer in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
Experience with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
Experience using AI-assisted coding tools and agentic development workflows to prototype, iterate, and build quickly
Ability to implement, debug, and evaluate research ideas in a fast-moving environment
Strong engineering judgment, including the ability to validate, refine, and productionize AI-assisted code

Nice To Haves

Rich hands-on experience in robotic manipulation, mobile manipulation, or industrial robotics
Experience training, fine-tuning, or evaluating multimodal or embodied models
Experience with World Models, action-conditioned prediction, model-based learning, planning, or control
Strong hands-on experience with simulation platforms such as Isaac Gym, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, ManiSkill, Habitat, or similar systems
Experience with reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or post-training for robotic policies
Experience working with real robot hardware, data collection systems, evaluation workflows, or deployment pipelines
Demonstrated technical initiative through research, open-source contributions, or high-impact engineering work

Responsibilities

Conduct research and build systems for embodied physical intelligence
Develop and evaluate methods in VLA, World Models, World Action Models, simulation, and RL
Design and run experiments on robotics tasks involving perception, planning, control, and long-horizon behavior
Build training and evaluation pipelines for large-scale embodied learning systems
Work closely with research and engineering teams to move ideas from prototype to real or simulated robot platforms
Explore how multimodal foundation models can improve robot capability in real deployment settings
Contribute to technical reports, internal research discussions, and, where appropriate, publications