Robotics Machine Learning Engineer - Platforms for Vision Language Action Foundation Models
Toyota Research InstituteLos Altos, California
Full Time
Posted December 4, 2025
$176k - $264k
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Job Description
A Robotics Machine Learning Engineer at Toyota Research Institute develops infrastructure, hardware, and software systems to support the creation of general-purpose robots using advanced machine learning models, experiments with real and simulated robots, and collaborates with researchers to push the frontiers of robotics technology.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and improve hardware platforms, including robots, sensors, interfaces, data logging, and controls.
- Build APIs and systems for high-throughput inference, low-latency model serving, and robust policy communication.
- Design and implement metrics pipelines and tools for quantitative and qualitative evaluation, experiment tracking, and visualization.
- Create scalable data pipelines for heterogeneous multimodal data, including storage, versioning, streaming, and visualization systems.
- Collaborate with researchers to run experiments on simulated and real robots, and contribute to peer-reviewed publications.
Requirements
- Experience in developing hardware platforms, including robots such as YAM, Franka, and custom robots, with knowledge of sensors including monocular, stereo, and depth sensors.
- Ability to develop and maintain robot computer interfaces, human-robot interfaces, data logging systems, and control systems.
- Proficiency in building APIs and systems for high-throughput inference and logging in simulation and on real robot platforms.
- Experience enabling low-latency model serving and robust policy environment communication.
- Designing metrics pipelines for quantitative and qualitative evaluation of robotics systems.
- Building tools for experiment tracking, logging, visualization, and leaderboard management using systems like Weights & Biases, MLflow, or ClearML.
- Building scalable data pipelines for heterogeneous multimodal data including images, text, video, touch, depth, and proprioception.
- Experience working with data storage, versioning, streaming, and visualization systems optimized for throughput and accessibility.
- Ability to create working code and interact frequently with researchers.
- Experience running experiments with both simulated and real physical robots.
- Participation in publishing research work to peer-reviewed venues.
- Comfort working with multiple robotic embodiments and stacks, as well as a growing dynamic corpus of robot data.
- Educational background in a relevant field (implied, as experience with complex systems and data infrastructure is required).
- Physical and cognitive ability to work with robotics hardware and software systems (implied by the nature of the work).
Benefits & Perks
Salary range between 176,000 and 264,000 USD per year (California-based roles)
Work schedule details not specified
Work environment perks include medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) eligibility; paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and parental leave
Annual cash bonus
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