# Research + Modeling at Mind Robotics

- Company: Mind Robotics
- What the company does: Mind Robotics builds intelligent, broadly capable robots for industrial deployment in high-impact environments. Backed by Accel, Kleiner Perkins and a16z.
- Company website: https://www.mindrobotics.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Palo Alto
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-01-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/665176a1-58c3-4103-8052-0426df82da73
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mind-robotics-research-modeling/

## About the role

At Mind Robotics, we’re building generalized physical AI —robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments. Our models sit at the core of this effort, bridging cutting-edge foundation model techniques with real-world robotic execution. We’re looking for a Research & Modeling Engineer to build and train the core models that power our systems, and ensure they perform reliably on real robots in production environments.

## What they're looking for

- Built and trained large-scale models (LLMs, VLMs, or robotics foundation models)
- Deep understanding of modern ML, training dynamics, and optimization at scale
- Experience with distributed systems and data pipelines for large-scale training
- Comfortable operating end-to-end: from data → model → real-world deployment (including robots)
- Domain strength in at least one: robotics, VLA systems, or training LLMs/VLMs from scratch
- Strong Python proficiency

Tags: Software Engineering