# Staff Research Engineer, Robot Learning Systems

Why RoboForce RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI-powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The company's robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability. We are looking for a Staff Research Engineer, Robot Learning Systems to lead and own the engineering of the systems that turn embodied AI into real-world robot behavior. You will be the technical owner and lead for the full embodied systems stack - the onboard AI system, the data collection system, the teleoperation systems, and the on-robot reinforcement learning system - driving the direction hands-on and closing the loop between data, models, and action in the physical world. Responsibilities Lead and own, from the engineering side, the embodied systems that power RoboForce's data flywheel - the onboard AI (inference) system, the data collection system, the teleoperation systems and the on-robot reinforcement learning system. Set the technical direction and architecture for how learned models run, are evaluated, and improve on real robots. Deliver these systems end-to-end on physical robots - from bring-up through reliable

- **Id**: 3836392
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/roboforce-staff-research-engineer-robot-learning-systems>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Milpitas, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T19:43:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T14:52:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3542
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Stock options, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, Industrial Robotics

## Company

- **Id**: 686554
- **Name**: RoboForce
- **Domain**: roboforce.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/roboforce>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 16
- **Ghost share**: 0.313
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 94
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 225000
- **Max**: 265000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 265000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Embodied AI** — Optional: no
- **Imitation Learning** — Optional: no
- **Physical AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **ROS** — Optional: no
- **ROS2** — Optional: no
- **Teleoperation** — Optional: no
- **Vision-Language-Action** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:11:20Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 11; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 18 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 18

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 94
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 265000
- **Is top pay**: no

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