# Founding Robot Learning at One Robot

- Company: One Robot
- What the company does: World models for robots. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.onerobot.io/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/onerobot/5fb5317f-c92e-44c1-b1be-c8cfc71882dc
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/one-robot-founding-robot-learning/

## About the role

Train manipulation policies: Build VLAs, diffusion policies, or end-to-end imitation models and run them on real robots. Validate the world model end-to-end: Train policies in simulation, deploy on real hardware, and find what doesn't transfer.

## What they're looking for

- Very strong coding in Python and PyTorch
- Real-robot policy training: Track record training manipulation policies that ran on physical hardware
- Demonstration data: Hands-on experience curating real-robot demonstration datasets

Tags: One Robot Founding Engineers