{"id":704718,"url":"https://alion.io/job/trener-robotics-software-engineer-vision-language-action-models","title":"Robotics Software Engineer Vision-Language-Action Models","company":{"id":685055,"name":"Trener Robotics, Inc.","domain":"trener.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/trener","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Robotics","role_family":"Robotics","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Trondheim, Norway","San Jose, United States"],"countries":["NO","US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":59000,"max_usd":164000,"period":"year","method":null,"sample_n":501},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Drake","optional":false},{"name":"Imitation Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Isaac Sim","optional":false},{"name":"JAX","optional":false},{"name":"Knowledge Distillation","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Model Distillation","optional":false},{"name":"MuJoCo","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"PyTorch","optional":false},{"name":"PyTorch C++","optional":false},{"name":"Quantization","optional":false},{"name":"Reinforcement Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Reinforcement Learning","optional":false},{"name":"ROS","optional":false},{"name":"TensorFlow","optional":false},{"name":"TensorFlow C++","optional":false},{"name":"Vision-Language-Action","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-06-30T20:53:53Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-06-30","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T23:03:01Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":85,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":85},"description":"Robotics Software Engineer Vision-Language-Action Models\nLocation\nTrondheim, Norway or San Jose, California, US.\nRole\nAs a Robotics Software Engineer specializing in robot learning and manipulation, you will drive the design, training, validation, and deployment of contact-rich manipulation skills on real robots. Your focus will be on solving dexterous, contact-rich manipulation tasks. You will develop and integrate sensor-based control strategies and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies, managing the full model lifecycle, from architecture and large-scale data collection through training, validation, and reliable deployment on industrial and collaborative robots.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role. You will spend significant time in the lab, running trials on hardware, curating high-quality datasets, and getting models to work on real robotic systems.\nHow you'll move the mission forward\nDevelop, train, and deploy multimodal VLA and learned manipulation policies that solve contact-rich tasks, integrating sensor-based control strategies that combine vision, force-torque, and tactile feedback.\n\nRun the manipulation model lifecycle, conducting regular trials on real hardware to evaluate algorithmic changes and curate high-quality training datasets.\n\nArchitect and build modular components for imitation and reinforcement learning, continuously improving the robustness of contact-rich tasks.\n\nBuild pipelines for continual learning, enabling policies to keep improving from new demonstrations and real-world deployment data over time.\n\nStress-test and optimize the real-time execution framework for learned policies running on the robot.\n\nSkills you will need to be successful\nA Master’s or PhD degree in robotics, computer science, machine learning, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience in robot learning and manipulation (e.g. visuomotor policy learning, imitation learning, applied reinforcement learning,, Vision-Language-Action models).\n\nProfessional experience in Python and C++, with a proven track record of shipping production-quality code.\n\nDeep expertise with a modern ML framework (PyTorch preferred; JAX or TensorFlow also welcome).\n\nDirect experience testing and iterating on physical robots integrated with vision, force-torque, and tactile sensors.\n\nExperience with robotic simulation environments (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Drake, or similar).\n\nYou thrive in the lab, spending significant time running hardware experiments and troubleshooting real-world edge cases.\n\nBusiness fluency in English.\n\nSkills that will differentiate your candidacy\nExperience manipulating and analyzing complex, large-scale, high-dimensional multimodal data from varying sources, with proficiency training models at scale on cloud-based workflows.\n\nExperience with edge deployment and model optimization for real-time control: low-latency inference, quantization, distillation, and pruning to meet tight control-loop rates on resource-constrained, on-robot hardware and accelerators.\n\nContributions to robot learning through publications or open-source projects.\n\nFamiliarity with ROS 2 and hands-on experience using industrial and collaborative robots from vendors such as Universal Robots, ABB, Fanuc, and KUKA.\n\nExperience with multibody dynamics simulators such as Adams.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3303,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Robotics","Industrial Robotics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T03:41:43Z"}],"liveness":{"score":12,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.329,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":84,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/trener-robotics-software-engineer-vision-language-action-models","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/trener-robotics-software-engineer-vision-language-action-models.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T01:17:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}