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The Company, together with its controlled subsidiaries, operates across multiple technology-driven areas, including AI electric vehicles, robotics, and its crypto business (AIXC), all under its upgraded Global EAI Industry Bridge Strategy, marking the beginning of a new chapter in AI mobility and Web3 integration. The Company aims to leverage the latest technologies and world’s best talent to realize exciting new possibilities across all of these lines. Faraday Future’s automotive business exemplifies its vision for luxury, innovation, and performance, while its FX strategy aims to introduce mass production models equipped with state-of-the-art luxury technology derived from the FF brand, targeted towards a broader market with middle-to-low price range offerings. FF is committed to redefining mobility through AI innovation. Join us in shaping the future of intelligent transportation and technology by creating something new, something connected, and something with a true global impact.\nYour Role: \nWe are building the next generation of intelligent robots. As a leader in Robotics AI Model, you will own the critical pipeline that transforms pretrained foundation models into deployable robot policies - turning general-purpose AI into systems that can reliably manipulate objects, navigate environments, and perform complex physical tasks in the real world.\nThis role sits at the intersection of embodied AI, robot learning, and foundation model adaptation. You will work across the full post-training lifecycle: curating demonstration data, fine-tuning vision-language-action (VLA) models or world models, training reinforcement learning policies in simulation, validating behaviors on real hardware, and optimizing models for on-robot inference. Your work will directly determine how capable, safe, and generalizable our robots are.\nKey Responsibilities:\nModel Post-Training & Fine-Tuning\nDesign and execute post-training pipelines for VLA and visuomotor policy models (e.g., diffusion policies, ACT, flow matching), including supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning (RL), and preference-based optimization\nFine-tune pretrained robot foundation models on task-specific demonstration datasets for dexterous manipulation, locomotion, whole-body control, and multi-step task sequencing\nDevelop and iterate on reward functions, verifiers, and RL training loops (PPO, GRPO, RLVR) to improve policy success rate and robustness in simulation and real-world deployment\nApply parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods (LoRA, QLoRA, OFT) to adapt large models to new tasks and robot embodiments under compute constraints\nData Pipeline & Curation\nBuild and manage large-scale robot demonstration data pipelines: teleoperation data collection, action tokenization (e.g., FAST tokenizer), data augmentation, quality filtering, and dataset versioning\nDefine data collection strategies across robot platforms, collaborating with robot operators and data labeling teams to ensure dataset diversity and coverage\nIntegrate multi-modal sensory data (RGB, depth, proprioception, force/torque, tactile) into coherent training datasets\nSimulation & Sim-to-Real Transfer\nBuild and maintain simulation environments (Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, SAPIEN) for scalable policy training, including domain randomization, asset generation, and task definition\nAddress sim-to-real transfer challenges through visual augmentation, action space calibration, dynamics randomization, and systematic real-world validation\nDesign and run large-scale distributed RL training across GPU clusters for locomotion and manipulation policies\nEvaluation & Deployment\nBuild evaluation and benchmarking infrastructure: automated success-rate tracking, sim evaluation harnesses, real-robot A/B testing, and regression monitoring\nOptimize models for on-robot inference: quantization (INT8/FP8), action chunking, latency reduction, and real-time control loop integration\nCollaborate with controls, perception, and hardware teams to integrate learned policies into the full robot software stack\nResearch & Innovation\nTrack and adopt state-of-the-art research in robot foundation models, generalist policies, and embodied AI post-training (e.g., π₀/π₀.5, OpenVLA OFT, RT-2, Octo, Helix)\nContribute to internal research efforts on topics such as multi-embodiment transfer, long-horizon task learning, open-world generalization, and human-in-the-loop policy improvement\nBasic Qualifications:\nMaster’s or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a closely related field\n3+ years of hands-on experience in robot learning, including imitation learning, behavior cloning, or visuomotor policy training on real or simulated robots\nDeep expertise in at least one post-training paradigm: SFT on robot demonstrations, RL-based policy optimization, or diffusion/flow-matching policy training\nStrong PyTorch skills with experience training and debugging models at scale; familiarity with distributed training (FSDP, DeepSpeed)\nPractical experience with robot simulation platforms (Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, PyBullet, or SAPIEN) and sim-to-real workflows\nUnderstanding of action representations for robotics: continuous control, discrete tokenization, action chunking, and diffusion-based action generation\nSolid Python engineering; comfortable working with ROS/ROS2, real-time control systems, and robot hardware integration\nAbility to independently drive projects from research prototype to real-robot deployment\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience fine-tuning VLA models such as π₀, OpenVLA, RT-2, Octo, or similar generalist robot policies\nHands-on experience with real robot platforms: humanoids, bi-manual arms (ALOHA), mobile manipulators, or 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