Robot Learning Engineer (m/f/d) VLA & Foundation Models

Skip to main contentEnglishEnglishBack to all jobsRobot Learning Engineer (m/f/d) VLA & Foundation ModelsGermany, Munich (HQ)Full-timePermanent employeeApply for this jobAbout the roleThe AI Research Division of Agile Robots is looking for a Robot Learning Engineer (m/f/d) VLA & Foundation Models, who will develop and deploy vision- and language-conditioned robot policies for real-world manipulation on physical robot platforms.Your ResponsibilitiesPolicy Development: Design, train, and evaluate vision- and language-conditioned robot policies using approaches such as imitation learning, diffusion models, transformer architectures, or reinforcement learning.Data Pipelines: Build workflows for collecting, structuring, and validating multimodal robot data from teleoperation, simulation, and real-world experiments, covering video, proprioception, force signals, and task outcomes.Robot Integration: Define action spaces, control interfaces, temporal chunking, and evaluation protocols to ensure learned policies are compatible with real robot execution contexts.Failure Analysis: Test policies in simulation and on physical robots, diagnosing failures caused by distribution shift, perception errors, contact dynamics, latency, and data quality.Deployment: Integrate learned policies into robot software stacks, with attention to latency, synchronization, safety checks, fallback behavior, and runtime monitoring.Research Application: Track developments in robot learning, VLA models, and foundation model methods, applying relevant advances to Agile's robot platforms and use cases.Essential SkillsBackground: Degree in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, or a closely related field, or an equivalent combination of research and professional experience in robot learning or embodied AI.Robot Learning: Hands-on experience building or working with learning-based robot policies, including imitation learning, visuomotor control, VLA models, or closely related embodied AI methods.Robotics Systems: Practical experience with robotic hardware, including real robot manipulation, ROS/ROS2, sensor integration, control interfaces, or real-world robot deployment.ML Engineering: Working proficiency in Python and PyTorch, including the ability to implement models, training loops, data loaders, and evaluation pipelines beyond notebook-level prototypes.Experimental Practice: Ability to design experiments, compare model variants, debug failures across the ML/robotics boundary, and iterate toward measurable performance on real tasks.Beneficial SkillsVLA Experience: Familiarity with VLA models or robotic foundation models such as π0, GR00T, or equivalent, including action-token or action-chunk representations.Policy Deployment: Experience deploying learned models on physical robots or edge compute platforms, including latency-constrained inference pipelines.Reinforcement Learning: Experience with online or offline RL for robotics, including reward design, simulation-based training, or combining RL with imitation learning.Simulation: Experience with simulators such as MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, or ManiSkill and with sim-to-real transfer workflows.Data Collection: Experience building or operating teleoperation systems, human-in-the-loop data collection, or intervention learning setups.What we offerDynamic high-tech company combined with financial soundness and world class investors.Join an interdisciplinary, international team with 60+ different nationalities in a collaborative work environment.Lots of development opportunities in the context of our continued growth.Challenging tasks and impactful projects alongside experts that enable professional and personal growth.Corporate Benefits Program that covers health, mobility and learning with 100 € net per month.Modern office facilites with a rooftop terrace overlooking Munich, free drinks & fruits, and regular company events contribute to a good working environment.About usAgile Robots SE is an international...