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# Staff AI Engineer, Robot Learning (Navigation)

- **Company:** The Rolewe
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Pytorch, Multi-Agent Systems, Machine Learning Operations, Stable Diffusion, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/staff-ai-engineer-robot-learning-navigation/44576017

## About the Role

vision-language-action models, ensuring production metrics meet strict real-world reliability standards.Stay ahead of the field, rapidly evaluate new model architectures, multi-agent strategies, and datasets to guide our embodied AI and behavior-learning roadmap.What We're Looking ForExtensive experience in machine learning for embodied AI, with a proven track record explicitly focused on end-to-end (e2e) learned behaviors using large models (VLAs, VLMs, transformers, or diffusion).Deep production expertise: You are someone who gets things into production that work reliably. You have hands-on experience deploying, monitoring, and optimizing large-scale ML systems.Strong background in spatial reasoning and semantic goals, with experience handling multi-agent dynamics, crowding, or interactive environments.Proficiency in PyTorch and the modern tooling required to train, fine-tune, and deploy large-scale foundation models for robotics.Exceptional experimental and engineering skills, capable
of taking ambitious behavior-learning concepts from initial research to rock-solid deployment on physical robots.Comfortable working in a fast-moving, research-driven environment with evolving models, data, and tools.What We OfferCompetitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale.30+ paid days off, including 23 days of annual leave, all UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days (including Christmas-New Year shutdown).Private healthcare, including virtual and in-person care.Pension scheme with 8% total contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office.Work at the frontier - collaborate daily with world-class engineers, researchers, and product experts building the next generation of AI and humanoid robotics.Real ownership - direct access to founding leadership, meaningful input on product direction, and the ability to drive key initiatives from day one. #J-18808-Ljbffr

## Description

models; you are defining the paradigm for how humanoids interact with a dynamic, unpredictable world. You will own the stack that transitions our robots from structured laboratory tasks to fluid, real-world autonomy.What You'll DoDevelop next-generation learned navigation systems that integrate complex spatial reasoning and semantic goals to drive robust, real-world robot behaviors.Work on open-ended navigation powered by Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, enabling robots to understand context, navigate multi-agent environments, predict intent, and act safely in dynamic spaces.Design and scale data pipelines and evaluation frameworks optimized for training large-scale, end-to-end (e2e) learned behaviors and multimodal navigation models.Architect and deploy highly reliable ML systems, taking models out of simulation/labs and hardening them for predictable, repeatable execution on physical hardware.Collaborate with cross-functional research and engineering teams to productionize large


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