# Autonomy Engineer - VLA Pre-Training at Humanoid

- Company: Humanoid
- What the company does: Humanoid creates advanced humanoid robots that integrate seamlessly into daily life, enhancing human potential. Learn more about our mission and vision.
- Company website: https://thehumanoid.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: US, San Diego, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-14
- Apply by: 2026-11-28
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humanoid/42ece2fe-54fa-4786-8ecb-95e066be7c32?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/humanoid-autonomy-engineer-vla-pre-training/

## About the role

As an Autonomy Engineer focused in VLA Pre-training, you will work on all aspects of training capable policies. You'll pre-train base models on a diverse, multi-embodiment corpus of trajectories, fine-tune policies to excel at specific tasks, shape data collection processes, and explore effective ways to generate and use synthetic data. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years building deep‑learning systems (industry or research) with shipped models or published artifacts to show for it
- Deep hands‑on experience with at least one of: LLMs, VLMs, or image/video generative models — architecture, training, and inference
- Experience with deep learning infrastructure: streaming datasets, checkpointing & state management, distributed training strategies
- Strong Python + PyTorch/JAX, you can profile, debug numerics, and write maintainable research code
- Familiarity with modern software engineering practices
- You document experiments clearly and communicate trade‑offs crisply

Tags: Engineering

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