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Our flagship systems-BRUTE for automated wall panel manufacturing and DEX for on-site collaborative construction-are addressing the global housing crisis by delivering unprecedented speed, precision, and affordability in homebuilding.\nPosition Overview\nAs Senior Robot Learning Engineer, you will own how LightSpeed's robots learn and perform physical skills. You will build the data pipeline that captures how people do the work, the policies that learn from it, and the executor that runs every action on the robot, classical or learned, behind one interface.\nOur robots do contact-rich, high-variance work: taping seams, routing cable, finishing drywall, setting fixtures. Your systems decide whether a new trade takes days or weeks to teach, and whether it runs reliably once it does.\nWhat you'll work on\nData and teleoperation\nDefine how we capture demonstrations: teleoperation rigs (leader arms, VR) and egocentric capture of people doing the work\n\nOwn the data pipeline: synchronized observations and actions, episode labelling, dataset versioning and quality checks\n\nDecide what data each new task needs, and how failures are labelled and fed back\n\nPartner with the world sensing principal on observation spaces and sensor streams\n\nPolicies and training\nSet the policy architecture: a shared vision and force backbone with task-conditioned heads, so a new skill needs a few demonstrations, not a new model\n\nTrain with imitation learning, diffusion or transformer policies and vision-language-action models; use reinforcement learning where the reward can be clearly defined\n\nBuild the training and evaluation loop, in simulation and on real robots, with held-out evaluations that gate deployment\n\nSolve manipulation of deformable materials: cable, tape, membrane\n\nSet coverage and first-pass yield targets per skill, and measure against them\n\nExecution and control\nOwn the actuate executor: classical control and learned policies behind one contract, so the planner can choose either for each step\n\nBuild the compliance layer for contact-rich work: nailing, pressing, taping, mudding, insertion, with force and impedance control\n\nBuild recovery behaviours for the common failures of each primitive\n\nDeploy policies on the robot within real-time and safety limits\n\nDefine what each tool must sense and report, so its actions can be learned from and controlled\n\nFoundation and skill pipeline\nCo-own the foundation interfaces with the world sensing and agentic planning principals, and own the data and evaluation interface\n\nFor each new trade: collect demonstrations, train and evaluate the policy, add recovery\n\nDrive down the time it takes to teach a new trade\n\nTechnical leadership\nSet robot learning and control architecture across both robot families\n\nLead and mentor learning and manipulation engineers\n\nMake the system something engineers can teach new trades with, without you in the loop\n\nStay hands-on: write production code and test on real robots every week\n\nRequired qualifications\nRobot learning and control\n5+ years in robotics or machine learning, including learned manipulation policies deployed on real hardware\n\nDeep experience with imitation learning and reinforcement learning, and with when to use each\n\nForce and impedance control for contact-rich manipulation\n\nBuilt a data pipeline for robot learning: teleoperation capture, labelling, versioning and evaluation\n\nDeep learning in PyTorch, from dataset to deployed policy\n\nEngineering and leadership\nStrong Python and C++\n\nExperience with ROS2, Linux, Docker and CI/CD workflows\n\nA record of setting technical direction across teams and mentoring engineers\n\nPreferred qualifications\nMS or PhD in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science or a related field\n\nVision-language-action models or other robot foundation models\n\nDiffusion policies, ACT or similar visuomotor policy architectures\n\nManipulation of deformable objects: cable, textile, tape\n\nBimanual or dexterous manipulation\n\nSim-to-real transfer with Isaac Sim, MuJoCo or similar\n\nTeleoperation systems: leader-follower arms, VR, egocentric capture\n\nRobot learning datasets in MCAP or rosbag\n\nContact-rich assembly, finishing or construction tasks\n\nBackground in construction, manufacturing or industrial automation\n\nWhy Join LightSpeed\nTeach robots the trades that build homes and address the housing crisis\n\nOwn robot learning end to end, from demonstration capture to deployed policy\n\nShape the foundation every trade is built on\n\nWork on rare real-world problems: deformable materials, contact-rich finishing, learning from human demonstration on factory and field robots\n\nHands-on culture with direct access to robots, sensors and manufacturing environments\n\nCompetitive compensation and comprehensive benefits\n\nEmployment Relationship\nThis position is at-will, meaning either you or the Company may terminate employment at any time, with or without cause or notice.\nEqual Opportunity\nLightSpeed Build Technologies is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. 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