Machine Learning Engineer VLA Training and Evaluation

Munich-based provider of AI-powered industrial automation and robotics products.

Munich, Germany

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About Agile Robots SE

Agile Robots develops Physical AI products, including humanoid robots, robotic arms, dexterous hands, and automation software for industrial applications.

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About the Role

You will build reusable training and evaluation workflows for robot foundation models. You will fine-tune vision-language-action models, develop policy-training loops and benchmarks, conduct sim-to-real transfer studies, and turn published research into extensible baselines.

Requirements

  • Experience writing and debugging training loops in PyTorch or JAX
  • Experience fine-tuning pretrained models
  • Understanding of imitation-learned robot policies
  • Experience designing evaluations and ablations
  • Experience with experiment tracking, versioning, and checkpoint management

Responsibilities

  • Build reusable model-agnostic training and evaluation workflows
  • Implement fine-tuning for pretrained vision-language-action models
  • Build training loops for action models, diffusion policies, and VLM/VLA heads
  • Build benchmarks, success metrics, and failure-analysis templates
  • Collaborate on sim-to-real transfer studies
  • Turn published methods into working baselines and templates

Benefits

  • Corporate Benefits Program covering health, mobility, and learning for 100€ net per month
  • Free drinks and fruit
  • Regular company events