# Staff Engineer, Deep Learning Manipulation

Job Title: Staff Engineer, Deep Learning Manipulation Department: Software Engineering Employment Type: Full-Time FLSA Status: Exempt Location: Houston, TX Travel: 10% Who We Are Persona AI is building humanoid robots for the most demanding environments in heavy industry - shipyards, steel mills, fabrication facilities, and offshore platforms - performing welding, grinding, maintenance, inspection, and material-handling work that is dangerous, physically demanding, and increasingly difficult to staff. We are backed by leading strategic and financial investors and engaged with global industrial leaders across Korea, Japan, the United States, and Singapore. Korea is the center of gravity for our early commercial strategy, anchored by relationships with the world’s leading shipbuilders and steelmakers. Our work spans both the robot platform itself and the systems, partners, and playbooks required to deploy it at scale. Why Join Persona AI? We offer competitive compensation, a performance-based bonus, 100% employer covered medical benefits for most healthcare plans, early-stage equity, competitive PTO, and company-wide paid winter break between December 24th and January 2nd. You’ll sh

- **Id**: 3986241
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/persona-ai-staff-engineer-deep-learning-manipulation>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Houston, 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**: 2026-11-09T21:15:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T08:17:44Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4486
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, Industrial Robotics, Humanoid Robots

## Company

- **Id**: 63117
- **Name**: Persona AI
- **Domain**: persona.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/persona-ai>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.2
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 66
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Teleoperation** — Optional: no
- **Vision-Language-Action** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T21:44:03Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 66
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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