# VLA/WAM Research Engineer

At Flexion, we're building the intelligence layer powering the next generation of humanoid robots. Our mission is to accelerate the transition from fragile prototypes to real-world humanoid deployment. We are founded by leading scientists in robot reinforcement learning (ex-Nvidia, ex-ETH Zürich), and backed by leading international VC firms. In just months, we’ve gone from our first line of code to deploying real humanoid capabilities. The role As our VLA/WAM Research Engineer, you'll develop the foundation models that power our humanoid robots, spanning model architecture, large-scale pre-training, adaptation, and post-training. You will work across the model lifecycle: designing VLA and World-Action Model architectures, training foundation models on large and diverse embodied datasets, developing methods for efficient adaptation to new tasks and embodiments, and using robot experience to continuously improve model capabilities. In particular, we are looking for researchers and engineers with deep experience in one or more of the following areas: VLA/VLM or multimodal model architecture, large-scale foundation-model pre-training, world models and predictive learning, robot learni

- **Id**: 3688823
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/flexion-robotics-vlawam-research-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, Zurich, Switzerland
- **Countries**: US, CH
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T15:52:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T07:02:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5860
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Robotic Software & Control Systems, Humanoid Robots

## Company

- **Id**: 673914
- **Name**: Flexion Robotics
- **Domain**: flexion.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/flexion>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.667
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Imitation Learning** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Pre-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Teleoperation** — Optional: no
- **Vision-Language-Action** — Optional: no
- **VLM** — Optional: no
- **World Models** — Optional: no
- **Self-Supervised Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T15:52:43Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:5, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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