Research Engineer/Scientist, Imitation Learning & Pretraining
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About this role
Research Engineer/Scientist, Imitation Learning & Pretraining. Tau Robotics builds general-purpose AI for humanoid robots deployed in real customer homes, learning from large-scale real-world robot experience to improve autonomy and performance.. Research · San Francisco · Full-time. Responsibilities: Build and scale supervised pretraining runs on large multi-modal robot datasets; Train multi-task manipulation policies and study what actually transfers; Define the finetuning recipes that hand pretrained policies to the RL loop. Requirements: Experience with large-scale pretraining, behaviour cloning, or vision-language-action models; Comfort building data pipelines for large multimodal datasets; Strong Python plus PyTorch or JAX; Evidence: papers, repos, or models you trained that others used
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Job Details
- Company
- Tau Robotics
- Location
- San Francisco / CA / USA
- Posted
- October 05, 2026
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- Seen on employer source 22h ago
About Tau Robotics
San Francisco robotics company building general-purpose AI for humanoid robots deployed in real homes, spanning robot learning, world models, reinforcement learning, simulation, robot data infrastructure, software and integrated hardware.
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