Robot Learning Engineer
Lightspeed, Northbrook, IL
The role
As a Robot Learning Engineer, you will teach our robots to perform complex manipulation tasks from human demonstration. You will own the path from demonstration to deployed behavior: building the teleoperation systems that capture how skilled people do the work, turning that data into trained policies, and proving those policies on real robots with dexterous hands and custom tooling. You'll also shape how we learn from video of people doing the work itself. This role is hands-on, fast-moving, and measured by one thing: robots that reliably do the job.
Nice to have
- MS or PhD in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related field
- Experience fine-tuning VLA or foundation models for robot control
- Experience with dexterous hands, VR hand tracking, or motion retargeting
- Experience building or using leader-follower teleoperation systems
- Experience learning from human video or egocentric data
- Experience building and maintaining large-scale robotics datasets