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AI Engineer – Human-to-Robot Learning (human)

Summary

Develop AI models that translate human motion and interaction data into robotic actions using multimodal foundation models and cross-embodiment learning.

Your Mission & Challenges

  • Model the Human Experience: Turn multimodal, body-worn data into representations a robot can learn from.

  • Bridge Two Bodies: Solve cross-embodiment transfer, translating human motion and interaction into action spaces a robot with a completely different body can use.

  • Build Foundation Models That Act: Design pretraining and fine-tuning strategies for robotic foundation models.

  • Prove It Works: Build the benchmarks that separate models that merely mimic from models that generalize.

  • Shape What Gets Captured Next: Turn model blind spots into sharp, concrete requirements for data capturing devices.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work shoulder to shoulder with hardware and systems engineering teams while staying laser-focused on the data and AI side.

What We Can Look Forward To

  • Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or comparable.

  • Real, hands-on experience with multimodal foundation models (VLA, video-action, or similar).

  • Experience with cross-embodiment transfer, RL based retargeting.

  • Deep understanding of low-level robotics control.

  • Strong grounding in imitation learning, representation learning, and self-supervised learning across sensor modalities.

  • Fluency in modern machine learning frameworks and large-scale training infrastructure.

  • A communicator who moves easily between researchers, engineers, and hardware teams.

  • Fluent English, German a plus.

What this application asks

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Name, Email, Resume, Where do you currently live?

  • Cover Letter upload · optional
  • Transcripts upload · optional
  • Our teams primarily work onsite at our office. Is this working model a good fit for you? choose one
  • Earliest possible start date / notice period?
  • Salary expectations? 

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