# Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Action Models at Atoms

- Company: Atoms
- What the company does: Backed by Initial Capital.
- Company website: https://atoms.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $273K to $321K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/atoms/jobs/8842767002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/atoms-staff-machine-learning-engineer-action-models/

## About the role

As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on Action Models, you will be one of the foundational technical leaders of Atoms' AI organization. You will help develop models that enable intelligent machines to reason about their environment, make decisions, and translate those decisions into actions in the physical world. This role sits at the intersection of machine learning, robotics, autonomous systems, planning, and embodied AI.

## What they're looking for

- Deep expertise in machine learning with experience developing models for decision-making, robotics, autonomous systems, or embodied intelligence
- Strong understanding of modern deep learning architectures and their application to sequential decision-making and physical systems
- Experience with one or more areas such as reinforcement learning, imitation learning, behavior learning, planning, control, robot learning, or embodied AI
- Experience developing systems that connect learned representations or perception to downstream actions
- Strong understanding of sequential and temporal modeling and the relationship between actions and future states
- Experience training and evaluating models using large-scale real-world, simulated, or synthetic datasets

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