Helix AI Engineer, Pretraining

Figure, an AI robotics company, is seeking an AI Engineer to join their Helix team in San Jose, CA. This role focuses on building and training large-scale foundation models for humanoid robots, utilizing multimodal data and advanced pretraining techniques. The position requires a strong background in machine learning, deep learning architectures, and distributed training.

• Design and train large-scale foundation models across multimodal data
• Develop pretraining strategies for generalization and reasoning
• Implement transformer-based and emerging foundation model architectures
• Build and optimize large-scale distributed training pipelines
• Collaborate with robotics and AI teams to integrate pretrained models
• Experience training large-scale foundation models or pretraining LLMs/multimodal systems