# Member of Technical Staff: Policy Pretraining at Walden Robotics

- Company: Walden Robotics
- What the company does: At Walden Robotics, we envision a world where general-purpose robots dramatically improve the quality of life for all people—supporting us at home, at work, in factories, on farms, and beyond. Backed by E14 Fund.
- Company website: https://waldenrobotics.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $285K to $380K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/walden-robotics/jobs/5428221f-a8d9-42f5-8613-4a8288d782c8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/walden-robotics-member-of-technical-staff-policy-pretraining/

## About the role

You will lead policy pretraining—training the policies that map what a robot perceives to what it does. As a senior IC you own a core part of the pretraining stack end to end, take major training experiments from idea to trustworthy result, and set direction others build on.

## What they're looking for

- Model Training: Deep hands-on experience training deep models with strong engineering fundamentals in a modern ML framework
- Ownership: A track record of driving ambiguous, large-scale training workstreams to a result independently
- Data-Driven Reasoning: Comfort reasoning about model behavior from data and metrics rather than intuition alone
- Technical Judgment: The judgment to make sound modeling and architecture trade-offs and set direction others follow
- Leadership: Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards

Tags: AI / ML