Helix AI Engineer Robot Learning
Figure is an AI robotics company developing general-purpose humanoid robots and its Helix vision-language-action AI system.
Funding history
About Figure
Figure develops and deploys general-purpose humanoid robots for commercial and household tasks. Its current Figure 03 robot is powered by Helix, an onboard generalist vision-language-action model; the company also operates the Index data-collection service.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop, train, evaluate, and deploy learning-based visuomotor manipulation policies on humanoid robots. You will own the workflow from real-robot data collection through model deployment, improve robustness, and integrate policies with robotics systems.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience developing and deploying robot learning systems on real robots
- Background in robot manipulation and visuomotor control
- Experience with behavior cloning, reinforcement learning, or learning-based manipulation methods
- Proficiency in Python or C++ for robotics and machine learning systems
- Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch
- Ability to design experiments, analyze failures, and iterate on real-world robotic systems
- Understanding of tradeoffs between classical robotics and learning-based methods
Responsibilities
- Design, train, evaluate, and deploy visuomotor manipulation policies
- Develop grasping, pick-and-place, object reorientation, door opening, bimanual manipulation, and assembly behaviors
- Apply behavior cloning, reinforcement learning, and VLA reasoning
- Train models robust to sensor noise, partial observability, contact dynamics, and environment variability
- Own real-robot data collection, model training, evaluation, and deployment
- Integrate policies with perception, controls, systems, and hardware
- Evaluate learning-based and classical robotics approaches
- Write reliable, well-tested software for physical humanoid robots
- Improve robustness, performance, and deployment velocity