Robotics Learning Engineer
15 days ago
Bristol
Senior Robot Learning Engineer – Large Behaviour Models Bristol (On-site) Competitive Salary Full-time, Permanent We are working with a cutting-edge robotics company developing advanced humanoid systems for real-world manipulation tasks. They are seeking a Senior Robot Learning Engineer to lead the development of large behaviour models for complex, bi-manual robotic manipulation. This role sits at the intersection of robot learning, foundation models, and real-world deployment, offering the opportunity to bring state-of-the-art research into production systems. The Role You will take ownership of scaling and deploying advanced policy architectures across a humanoid robotics platform, working on: • Large behaviour models (diffusion, transformer-based, VLA/VLM), • Reinforcement learning and imitation learning pipelines, • Multi-task, language-conditioned manipulation policies, • Design, train, and deploy end-to-end robot learning models, • Scale diffusion transformer and VLA-based architectures, • Develop generalisable, multi-task manipulation policies, • Advance RL pipelines for fine-tuning beyond imitation learning, • Build sim-to-real transfer workflows, • Collaborate across perception, MLOps, and robotics teams, • MSc/PhD in ML, Robotics, Computer Science or similar, • Strong experience in robot learning for real-world systems, • Expertise in at least two of:, • Behaviour cloning, • Diffusion models, • Reinforcement learning, • Vision-language-action models, • Strong PyTorch and distributed training experience, • Humanoid or bi-manual manipulation experience, • Sim-to-real experience (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, etc.), • Experience with CLIP, DINOv2, or similar models