# Research Engineer, Robot Learning at Relari

- Company: Relari (YC W24)
- What the company does: Building dexterous robots that learn from human biomechanics. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.relari.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $125K to $175K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-11
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/relari/jobs/vZgIE15-research-engineer-robot-learning
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/relari-research-engineer-robot-learning/

## About the role

You will work across the complete learning-to-deployment loop: building representations from human data, training models, evaluating them in simulation and on physical robots, and using failures to decide what to try next. Our research spans vision-language-action models, video models, world models, and policies that learn from biomechanical signals.

## What they're looking for

- Strong foundations in machine learning, robot learning, computer vision, or a closely related field
- Experience building and evaluating learning systems in Python using PyTorch, JAX, or similar tools
- Evidence that you can turn an open-ended technical question into a working experiment and a clear conclusion
- Comfort debugging real data and physical systems rather than working only with clean benchmarks
- Experience with VLA models, video models, world models, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or large-scale model training is useful, we do not expect depth across every area

Tags: Engineering