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Posted May 9Research Engineer
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
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Responsibilities
- WHAT YOU’LL DO - Evaluate how different sensor modalities impact VLA training and downstream robotics performance - Work across RGB-D video, IMUs, motion capture, tactile sensing, audio, and wearable systems data - Design experiments around synchronization, calibration, fusion, and multimodal alignment - Prototype quickly and iterate from real-world robotics deployments and research feedback - Collaborate closely with hardware, ML, and research teams on next-generation sensing systems WHAT WE’RE LOOKING
Requirements
- If you want to help reshape physical labor and work on problems that matter at civilizational scale, join us. THE OPPORTUNITY As a Research Engineer, you’ll work on multimodal sensing systems and sensor fusion research for embodied AI and robotics.
- This role sits at the intersection of robotics, perception, hardware systems, and machine learning, where your work directly shapes how multimodal data is collected, synchronized, fused, and used for downstream VLA training.
- You’ll research emerging sensing technologies across RGB-D video, motion capture, IMUs, tactile sensing, audio, and wearable systems, and study how different sensor combinations impact robot learning, policy performance, and generalization.
- You’ll work closely with hardware, ML, and research teams to design experiments, evaluate new sensing stacks, and help define the next generation of multimodal robotics datasets.
- Experience with RGB-D video, IMUs, motion capture, tactile sensing, or robotics systems -
- Experience with reinforcement learning, real-world robot deployments, and how data impacts downstream policy performance - Highly curious, execution-oriented, and comfortable operating from first principles
Benefits
- Research into human physical intelligence — including the human hand, proprioception, and vision — remains largely unsolved.
Additional details
- ABOUT HUMAN ARCHIVE Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence.