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Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Engineer

Runway Health · New York, NY · On-site

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About Runway Health

Affordable, convenient travel health medications for motion sickness, sleeplessness, altitude sickness, malaria prevention and traveler's diarrhea. Backed by Techstars.

About the role

* Open to candidates based near our NYC office or those willing to relocate. Building general world models — systems that understand and simulate reality across tasks, modalities, and domains — requires closing the loop between learned representations and real-world action. We're looking for a Robotics Engineer to bring our video-native foundation models onto real hardware: deploying world-model-based policies on real robots and making them work in the real world.

What they're looking for

  • Fluency in the software-to-robot interface: action/command spaces, control frequencies, observation pipelines, calibration, and how each affects real-world behavior
  • Comfort working at the intersection of software and physical systems: you can reconfigure a robot workspace and trace a policy failure in the same afternoon
  • Bonus: direct experience deploying learned policies (VLAs, diffusion policies) on real hardware, experience with video/multimodal generative models or world models
  • Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates
More about this role

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science.

We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world.

World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.

Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.

* Open to candidates based near our NYC office or those willing to relocate.

Building general world models — systems that understand and simulate reality across tasks, modalities, and domains — requires closing the loop...

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