# Robot Learning Engineer at Relling

- Company: Relling (YC S25)
- What the company does: deploying the first billion robots for manufacturing. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://relling.co
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K to $170K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/relling/jobs/iQ4YH9e-robot-learning-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/relling-robot-learning-engineer/

## About the role

Relling is building the deployment layer for physical AI. We deploy hybrid robotic cells — classical motion composed with learned manipulation primitives — into specialty manufacturing operations across the defense industrial base. Our cells run today inside our own factory and on partner floors, and the work to make them run reliably under real production conditions is the work we're hiring you to do.

## What they're looking for

- Experience deploying robotic systems (classical or learned) into production environments with uptime accountability
- Hands-on experience across the robotics stack: motion planning, controls, perception, state estimation, runtime software, end-of-arm tooling, basic hardware bring-up
- Strong software engineering and infrastructure skills: data pipelines, training systems, evaluation frameworks, observability tooling, runtime monitors, fault isolation
- Familiarity with foundation-model robotics (VLAs, imitation learning, RL fine-tuning) and the practical engineering tradeoffs of running them on edge compute
- Comfort working in safety-critical environments. Familiarity with ISO 10218 / ISO TS 15066 or equivalent industrial safety standards is a plus
- The ability to move from a failure mode observed on the floor to a fix that ships in days rather than quarters

Tags: Engineering