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Senior AI Research Engineer

Standard Bots - New York, NY, USA - In-office - posted 2026-09-22

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Salary: USD 225,000 - 250,000 / annual

Standard Bots is revolutionizing real-world automation by making robotic systems accessible through an AI-powered platform that enables robots to tackle unprecedented challenges via an intuitive instruction interface. You will develop and optimize AI models and training systems for cutting-edge AI/robotics applications. Working closely with a small team of AI engineers, you'll design, implement, and iterate on large-scale AI models while building efficient systems for rapid experimentation and deployment. This role requires working across the stack to deliver models that solve real customer problems. Key responsibilities: - Design and implement state-of-the-art ML models and training pipelines, applying novel machine learning techniques to robotics applications, developing efficient data and training strategies, and implementing model evaluation frameworks and metrics tracking. - Lead model development and iteration with focus on rapid experimentation and prototyping of new model architectures, performance optimization and model debugging, and transfer learning and fine-tuning strategies. - Build robust evaluation and debugging systems to analyze model behavior and failure modes, implement interpretability tools and visualization frameworks, and track and improve model metrics. - Collaborate with the engineering team to optimize training infrastructure and deployment. Tech stack: PyTorch (required), Python, NodeJS/Typescript, Docker. REQUIREMENTS: - 5+ years of AI modeling experience specifically within the self-driving car industry, OR PhD with 3+ years of AI modeling experience in the self-driving car industry - Proven track record developing and deploying large-scale ML models - Experience using the latest techniques in diffusion and autoregressive models in a professional setting - Familiarity with training, inference, and infrastructure pipelines that go from camera input to trajectory output for self-driving or robotics - Experience with reinforcement learning (RL) - Strong understanding of modern ML architectures and training techniques - Experience with model debugging, optimization, and performance tuning - Background in implementing ML research papers and adapting academic work

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