Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models) at Aktoria Robotics

Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models)

Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models) role at Aktoria Robotics in San Francisco, CA, US. - Train / fine-tune VLAs and robot foundation models - Run data-quality ablations and scaling studies - Publish papers and benchmarks - data curation, filtering, formats, evals on real robots expected to have: - experience training IL/VLA policies at scale -...

San Francisco, CA, USFull-time

Posted Sep 14, 2026

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What will you do at Aktoria Robotics?

- Train / fine-tune VLAs and robot foundation models - Run data-quality ablations and scaling studies - Publish papers and benchmarks - data curation, filtering, formats, evals on real robots expected to have: - experience training IL/VLA policies at scale - First-author publications (CoRL/ICRA/IROS/RSS/NeurIPS) or equivalent strong open-source work

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