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Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Robotics and Physical AI
Clera
San Francisco, California, United StatesPosted Sep 17, 2026 · 2d ago$100k – $300k
Full-time$100k – $300kOn-siteOther
About this role
Join an early-stage AI data company as a Research Engineer/Scientist focused on robotics and physical AI. You will develop learning systems, simulation environments, and computer vision algorithms to advance robot capabilities from simulation to real-world deployment. This hands-on role involves working with hardware, sensors, and embedded systems to shape how robots perceive, plan, and act.
What we are looking for
6- Develop learning systems for robots (policies, world models, vision-language-action models)
- Build and maintain robot simulation environments and evaluation frameworks
- Apply and advance computer vision and perception algorithms for autonomous robots
- Build real-to-sim and sim-to-real pipelines for robot deployment
- Work with robot hardware, sensors, actuators, and embedded systems
- Train and evaluate reinforcement and imitation learning systems
Work authorization
No visa sponsorship is available.
Must be authorized to work without sponsorship.
