# Staff ML Engineer, VLA Training

About Us Nidus is building autonomous manufacturing systems powered by AI and robotics. U.S. manufacturers are under growing pressure to increase output while navigating workforce constraints, underutilized equipment, and increasingly complex supply chains. We believe the next generation of manufacturing will be enabled by more intelligent, flexible automation-systems that help people and machines work together to expand capacity and improve productivity. We're building the intelligence layer that makes that possible. Our team comes from the intersection of defense technology and AI. We've built and shipped products to DoD customers, and we bring deep experience across ML, robotics, product development, and defense. We're a small, in-person team in New York City working on hard problems that matter. If you want to build the future of American manufacturing, we'd love to hear from you. About the role We are building intelligent robots that can perceive the world, understand instructions, and perform useful physical tasks in dynamic, real-world environments. We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to develop and scale the vision-language-action models that power our robo

- **Id**: 1115389
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nidus-staff-ml-engineer-vla-training>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T14:46:44Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T07:25:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6452
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Defense Manufacturing, Industrial AI

## Company

- **Id**: 682361
- **Name**: Nidus
- **Domain**: nidus.tech
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nidus-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 187000
- **Max usd**: 371000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 890

## Technologies

- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Imitation Learning** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Vision-Language-Action** — Optional: no
- **FSDP** — Optional: yes
- **Gazebo** — Optional: yes
- **Isaac Sim** — Optional: yes
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: yes
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: yes
- **MuJoCo** — Optional: yes
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: yes
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: yes
- **ROS** — Optional: yes
- **Tokenization** — Optional: yes
- **World Models** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T15:14:07Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 29
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.651
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 48
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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