Machine Learning Engineer

OpenMind builds OM1, an AI-native, hardware-agnostic operating system and software infrastructure for robots that work with people.

6 current maintainers5 lead step-downsTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026

San Francisco, USA

Funding history

About OpenMind

San Francisco-based OpenMind develops and deploys software for human-facing robots. Its actively maintained OM1 runtime enables multimodal AI agents across physical robots and digital environments, with hardware integration, navigation, speech, perception, and observability capabilities.

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About the Role

You will turn research into reliable models for physical robots. You will build training, evaluation, and inference systems using real-world embodied data, including video, lidar, audio, state-action logs, and reasoning traces. You will develop multimodal perception models, curate datasets, deploy containerized services, optimize models for embedded hardware, and monitor their field performance.

Requirements

  • MS or PhD in machine learning, robotics, computer science, or a related field
  • 1+ years of industry or applied research experience training and shipping machine learning models
  • Strong engineering fundamentals in Python, Go, and/or C++
  • Fluency in PyTorch or JAX
  • Hands-on experience with multimodal models, perception, or reinforcement and imitation learning
  • Experience running models on edge hardware under latency and memory constraints
  • Experience with TensorRT, ONNX, or other inference optimization toolchains
  • Experience with ROS2 and Docker-based deployment on robots
  • Experience building datasets or benchmarks used outside your own team
  • Publications at CoRL, RSS, ICRA, NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR

Responsibilities

  • Build multimodal perception models for socially aware robots
  • Build and scale pipelines that transform robot logs into curated and labeled datasets
  • Ship models as containerized services in the OM1 deployment stack
  • Own model latency, reliability, and field regressions
  • Move models from prototypes to production on physical robots
  • Integrate, fine-tune, and optimize foundation models for real-time perception and reasoning on embedded compute

Benefits

  • Equity