Hiring: Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Engineer Company: Runway Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 11:04:21 Target Skills & Keywords : AI, Fine-tuning About the job Required Skills: •Open to candidates based near our NYC office or those willing to relocate. •Own the deployment loop for learned policies (VLAs, diffusion policies, World Action Models) on real robot arms: inference serving, action decoding, controller integration, latency budgets, and safety limits •Diagnose real-world policy failures — determining whether the problem is data coverage, camera/proprioception mismatch, or execution — and partner with the research team to fix it at the right layer •Design demonstration data collection protocols (task setup, camera placement, teleop conventions) that produce data our world models can actually learn from — working with our existing teleop and lab infrastructure •Partner with research to run controlled experiments connecting world model representations, data composition, and fine-tuning recipes to physical success rates •Define and run physical evaluation protocols so results are trustworthy and comparable across policy iterations •Adapt our policy recipe to partner hardware and new embodiments •You have personally deployed software on real robot hardware and iterated to make it work — whether learned policies, motion planning, classical control, or perception-driven manipulation. You can walk through a specific system you shipped, what broke on the physical robot that didn't break in sim or testing, and how you fixed it. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!