AI Research Engineer

About this role

A Seattle-based startup is hiring an AI Research Engineer to develop foundational models for autonomous systems and robotics. You'll design ML experiments, implement large-scale models including transformers and diffusion architectures, and collaborate with a small research team to advance human-robot interaction.

What you'll do

• Design and iterate on ML pipelines for foundational model development
• Implement and train large-scale transformer and diffusion models for generative and control tasks
• Develop and evaluate reinforcement learning algorithms for autonomous behaviors
• Rapidly prototype research ideas into working code
• Integrate ML components into real-world systems with cross-functional teams
• Stay current with AI research and share insights internally and externally

What they're looking for

• Large-scale model training (transformers, diffusion models)
• Reinforcement learning fundamentals and applications
• Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow)
• Writing clean, scalable, efficient code
• ML experimentation and evaluation
• Collaboration and communication
• Simulation environments or robotics systems (preferred)
• Multimodal architectures and imitation learning (preferred)

Benefits

• Relocation stipend for candidates moving to Seattle from 50+ miles away
• Work on cutting-edge AI and robotics technology
• Collaborate with a small, dynamic team of AI researchers
• Influence the future of human-robot interaction
• Equal opportunity employer with disability accommodations