# VLA Algorithm Engineer – Simulation Data Generation & World Models at Maxinsights

- Company: Maxinsights
- What the company does: Powering generalist robotics and world models with multi-million-hour annotated egocentric data, hand tracking, upper-body/whole-body motion capture, tactile sensing, and simulation for OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, Figure, 1X, Skild, Genesis AI, and Dyna... Backed by South Park Commons.
- Company website: https://maxinsights.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Santa Clara
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-27
- Apply by: 2026-12-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/maxinsights/5a1d4b62-9be6-48ae-882c-9e6fac82ab27?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/maxinsights-vla-algorithm-engineer-simulation-data-generation-and-world-models/

## About the role

We're looking for a VLA Algorithm Engineer working at the intersection of robotics, simulation, and world models to help advance our embodied AI foundation models. You'll build and optimize robotic simulation environments, develop large-scale synthetic training data pipelines, and improve how models trained in simulation transfer to real-world robots. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- At least 1 year of relevant professional experience or research experience in robotics, simulation, system identification, reinforcement learning (RL), imitation learning (IL), world models, 3D vision, or a related field
- Experience with robotics simulation, robotic learning, or related algorithm development
- Strong understanding of at least one relevant research area, such as reinforcement learning, imitation learning, system identification, world models, or 3D computer vision
- Simulation Platform Development: Hands-on experience developing or extending simulation platforms, with familiarity with the underlying architecture of tools such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Orbit, MuJoCo, PyBullet, or Genesis
- Large-Scale Synthetic Data Generation: Experience building synthetic datasets for robotics or computer vision, developing scalable data generation pipelines, or using diffusion models for large-scale synthetic data generation

Tags: Engineering, Simulation

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