Member of Technical Staff Robotics Engineer
Runway is an AI company building generative media, developer, and robotics products on top of its real-world intelligence and general world models.
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About Runway
Runway provides a cloud creative suite for generating and editing video, images, and audio; an API platform for developers; and a robotics toolkit for policy inference, simulation, and synthetic data generation powered by its GWM-1 general world model.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will deploy learned policies on real robot arms, integrate controllers, manage latency and safety limits, and diagnose physical policy failures. You will design data-collection and evaluation protocols, run experiments, and adapt policy recipes for partner hardware and new embodiments.
Requirements
- Robot hardware
- Policy deployment
- Motion planning
- Control
- Perception
- Manipulation
- Action space
- Command space
- Control frequency
- Observation pipeline
- Calibration
- VLA
- Diffusion policy
- Video model
- Multimodal generative model
- World model
Responsibilities
- Own deployment of learned policies on real robot arms
- Diagnose real-world policy failures and address them at the appropriate layer
- Design demonstration data-collection protocols
- Run experiments connecting model representations and data to physical success rates
- Define and run physical evaluation protocols
- Adapt policy recipes to partner hardware and new embodiments