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Our research spans vision-language-action models, video models, world models, and policies that learn from biomechanical signals. We are looking for depth in machine learning or robot learning-not expertise in every part of the stack-and the willingness to follow an idea all the way to robot performance.\nWhat you’ll do\nOwn pre-train, post-train, and evaluation pipelines of robotics foundation models from diverse multimodal human and robot datasets.\nDevelop and adapt vision-language-action models, video models, and world models for dexterous manipulation.\nInvestigate representations and training methods for transferring human skills across robot embodiments.\nBuild reproducible large-scale training, simulation, and real-world evaluation loops that make research progress measurable.\nDeploy policies on physical robots and diagnose failures across data, perception, learning, control, and hardware.\nImprove practical experiment tooling, including data pipelines, teleoperation, retargeting, visualization, and robot runtime software.\nRead relevant research, reproduce promising ideas, and design focused experiments around the results.\nWhat we’re looking for\nStrong foundations in machine learning, robot learning, computer vision, or a closely related field.\nExperience building and evaluating learning systems in Python using PyTorch, JAX, or similar tools.\nEvidence that you can turn an open-ended technical question into a working experiment and a clear conclusion.\nComfort debugging real data and physical systems rather than working only with clean benchmarks.\nExperience with VLA models, video models, world models, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or large-scale model training is useful; we do not expect depth across every area.\nWorking at Relari\nRelari is a small research and engineering startup developing new ways for robots to learn dexterous skills from human biomechanics. 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