Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models)

Aktoria Robotics is hiring a Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models) in San Francisco, CA. Full brief — comp band, interview process, and hiring team — available to Employbl members.

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Job listing · Updated 14 SEP 2026

Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models)

Aktoria Robotics· San Francisco, CA, USView company profile

Job title: Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models)
Job location: San Francisco, CA, US
Job listing URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aktoria-robotics/jobs/WlROHB1-robot-learning-researcher-vla-foundation-models
Job description: \- 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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