Senior VLA Pre-training Engineer (компания не указана)

Data Scientist / ML Engineer

#AI #VLA #Robotics #DeepLearning #Research #Relocation #London #Senior 🤖 **Senior VLA Pre-training Engineer** We're hiring for a team building the brain of the next generation of industrial humanoid robots. 🔬 **The Project** Our client is a fast-growing humanoid robotics startup building robots for real industrial environments: manufacturing, logistics, warehouses, large-scale physical operations. Not research-only - they already have 30,000 pre-orders globally, signed contracts with a major European industrial manufacturer and successful pilots with global engineering leaders in automotive and industrial automation. The VLA (Vision-Language-Action) team is responsible for the core intelligence: how the robot perceives the world, understands instructions, learns new skills, and executes manipulation tasks autonomously. 🧠 **Your Role** As a Senior VLA Pre-training Engineer, you'll own the full lifecycle of foundation models for robotic behavior: - Pre-training and fine-tuning VLA models on large-scale multimodal datasets; - Building and maintaining data pipelines: collection, curation, synthetic data generation; - Designing distributed training infrastructure; - Sim-to-real transfer: validating policies in simulation before real-world deployment; - Working closely with simulation engineers, data scientists, and embedded teams; - Shipping models that directly power real robots in production. 🛠 **What We're Looking For** - 5+ years building deep learning systems (industry or research) with shipped models or published work; - Hands-on with LLMs, VLMs, or VLA models - architecture, training, fine-tuning; - Large-scale distributed training: PyTorch DDP, data pipelines, checkpointing; - Experience with robotics simulators (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Gazebo) or real robotic systems; - Strong Python + PyTorch/JAX; you can debug numerics and write production code; - Self-driven, proactive, communicates clearly. **Nice to have:** Robotics background, sim-to-real experience, OpenVLA or similar VLA frameworks 💰 **What's Offered** Compensation: £150,000 – £230,000 gross/year, based on experience London, 100% onsite - daily access to robots, labs, and prototypes Relocation support: up to £8,000 + Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship Benefits: private healthcare, pension (8%), 23 days PTO, equity 📩 **Interested?** DM @sobolevavalery with 3–5 lines about your VLA/LLM pre-training experience, distributed training scale, and robotics background. We move fast.