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Primis lists this Machine Learning Engineer opportunity in columbus, Ohio. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Machine Learning Engineer | Robot Learning
Build robots that learn from the real world
We're looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to build the learning systems behind autonomous industrial robots. This is a hands-on, deployment-first role. You'll take behavioral cloning, reinforcement learning, diffusion and vision-language-action models from research all the way to a fleet of robotic cells running in live manufacturing environments. Your models will learn from real-world vision, force and torque data, not just simulation.
What you'll be doing
You’ll develop and deploy learning-based methods for robot control and object manipulation across a fleet of industrial robotic cells. You’ll use multi-modal data, including images, force and torque, to make robots more capable, reliable and adaptive. You’ll design and build vision-language-action (VLA) models, and shape strategy across the whole solution lifecycle: data collection, fleet learning and continuous learning. You’ll work closely with hardware and software teams to integrate manipulation, control and planning algorithms into production robotic platforms, and help keep the team at the frontier of robot learning.
What we’re looking for
PhD or Master's in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
A track record of publishing at top venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CoRL, RLC)
Hands‑on experience applying machine learning to robot manipulation
Experience building models from scratch and deploying them in real-world applications, not just research or sim
A proven track record of deploying scalable solutions for autonomous robotic systems
Experience with robotic simulation tools such as Isaac Sim or MuJoCo
Experience with pose estimation, segmentation, active perception and affordance-based bin picking
Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++
Clear communication: you can explain complex technical ideas to a wide range of audiences
The bottom line
If your background is real robot learning, real hardware, and models that leave the lab and do real work, and you want your policies improving every day on a fleet of production robots, we’d love to talk.
We encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply even if you don’t check every box. Research shows women and underrepresented candidates often leave themselves out of roles they’re qualified for. If this sounds like your kind of problem, we want to hear from you.
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Worksite address
columbus, OH, 43224, US
Who can apply
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