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# Founding Machine Learning Engineer, Robot Learning

- **Company:** Searchability
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £60,000.0 - £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Training Data, Kinematics, Machine Learning, Pytorch
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/founding-machine-learning-engineer-robot-learning/57285383

## About the Role

* Shipped learned policies on real robot hardware. Sim only backgrounds are not a fit for this one
 * Strong SE(3) geometry, kinematics and inverse kinematics
 * Imitation learning, whether behaviour cloning, diffusion policies or VLA fine tuning
 * Fluent PyTorch
 * MuJoCo and or Isaac
 * Comfortable owning a stack end to end with no one above you to check the work

DESIRABLE, NOT ESSENTIAL

 * Dex retargeting, AnyTeleop or MANO pipelines
 * EgoMimic or EgoVLA style work
 * Tactile sensing
 * LeRobot
 * Dexterous manipulation research

## Description

* Retargeting onto robot hands with different kinematics to the human demonstrator
 * Imitation policies with tactile in the control loop, not just in the training set
 * Sim to real, sim for scale and real capture for contact ground truth, and you define where the crossing happens
 * Engineering standards and direction for the learning stack as the team grows post raise


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