Head, Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) Development, Manipulation

Description

• Lead large-scale post-training of multi-modal LLM / VLM / VLA systems; continuously integrate new sensor modalities (vision, audio, proprioception, LiDAR, point cloud, …).
• Collaboration with top‑tier engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics
• Partner with MLOps and Data Platform teams to scale distributed training and optimise models for real-time edge deployment.
• Set and drive the strategy for representation learning, behaviour cloning and reinforcement learning (RL).
• Build always-on pipelines that collect sim + tele-op logs, store them in a versioned lake, transform / label streams with weak supervision, curate balanced datasets and run an evaluation loop that feeds fresh failure cases back into training.
• Hire, mentor and unblock a small, elite team of research scientists and engineers.

Requirements

• Demonstrated record of shipping to real robots or vehicles and iterating via data-flywheel loops.
• Experience in autonomous vehicle control and planning.
• Hands-on experience with LLM / VLM architecture design, billion-parameter training and fine-tuning.
• Research or open-source work in multi-modal transformers, diffusion control, world models.
• Proven robotics, autonomous driving or LLMs expertise (behaviour cloning, actor–critic, offline RL) applied to robotics or autonomous driving.
• Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives
• Deployment on humanoid or legged robots.
• 6+ years building deep-learning systems, 2+ years technical team leadership.
• Familiarity with OpenVLA, Physical Intelligence (π) models or other open-source VLA frameworks.

Benefits

• Competitive salary plus participation in our Stock Option Plan
• Travel opportunities to our Vancouver and Boston offices
• Office perks: free breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and regular team events
• Paid vacation with adjustments based on your location to comply with local labor laws

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance