Staff AI Performance Engineer

Why RoboForce RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI–powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The company’s robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability. We are seeking a Senior / Staff Robotics Engineer, Motion Planning to own the local mobility and safety stack for our fleet. In this role, you will bridge the gap between AI-driven perception and physical hardware execution. You will consume traversability and semantic costmaps generated by our AI team and translate them into safe, dynamically feasible, and deterministic motion. You are solving the physics of mobility on unpredictable terrain, ensuring our humanoid platform respects its physical limits, shifting center of mass, and traction constraints. Responsibilities Dynamic Motion Planning: Architect and implement advanced local planners (e.g., optimization-based approaches like MPC, MPPI, or custom contouring control) that translate AI-generated routes into trajectories that a heavy, non-holonomic base can physically execute on uneven terrain. AI Integration & Costmap Consumption: Build the high-performance C++ pipelines that ingest the AI team's neural network outputs (semantic maps, learned costmaps) in real-time and convert them into deterministic mathematical constraints for the planner. Center of Mass (CoM) Aware Navigation: Ensure local planners dynamically adjust to real-time changes in the robot's Center of Mass caused by the lifting column and dual-arm payloads. Your trajectories must guarantee stability and prevent tipping on slopes or rough ground. Deterministic Safety Architectures: AI models hallucinate. You will build the deterministic C++ safety layer and fallback behaviors that override AI inputs if a commanded path violates physical safety constraints or if off-the-shelf SLAM tracking drops. WBC Integration: Architect the local planning interfaces to seamlessly pass base trajectories, v

Why RoboForce RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI–powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The company’s robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability. We are seeking a Senior / Staff Mechanical Engineer to design, develop, and refine mechanical systems and components for cutting-edge robotic products. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to create reliable and high-performance robotic solutions. This role offers an opportunity to push the boundaries of robotics technology while working on projects with real-world applications. Responsibilities Design and develop mechanical systems for AI robots. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate mechanical, electrical, and software components. Conduct feasibility studies and simulations to evaluate designs. Create engineering drawings, specifications, and documentation for manufacturing. Work closely with vendors to design and develop various modules. Perform prototype fabrication, testing, and validation to meet performance, reliability, and safety standards. Requirements Master’s degree or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, or related field. 5+ years of experience in mechanical design, preferably in robotics or automation. Proficient in CAD software (e.g., SolidWorks, AutoCAD). Strong understanding of materials, manufacturing processes, and mechanical systems. Experience with FEA and other simulation tools. Proven track record of leading projects from concept to production. Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills. Requires 5 days/week in-office collaboration with the teams. Bonus Qualifications Experience with robotics, mechatronics, or automation. Familiarity with actuators, sensors, and control systems. Rapid prototyping techniques. Knowledge of regulatory compliance and safety standards in robotics. Benefits Competitive stock options/

Staff Power Electronics Engineer About Us Graphcore is a globally recognized leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data center hardware that provide the specialized processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Job Overview: Graphcore is seeking a Senior Engineer, Power Engineering to aid in design, test, and development of the power delivery components from grid to chip. You will work closely with multiple cross-functional teams, including hardware engineers, firmware developers, and data center operations, to ensure the infrastructure we build meets customer requirements as well as attaining standards of performance, reliability, and scalability. This role will be hybrid-remote, based in Milpitas, CA and will involve a significant in-laboratory component along with some work-from-home. Responsibilities: Contribute to the design and specification of the components and systems in the grid-to-chip power chain. Build out the test environment and perform engineering test and validation of the grid-to-chip chain. Design test hardware including the overall test environment, test fixtures, loads, and other devices to simulate various loading conditions and to evaluate the performance of the power chain. Testing includes basic function testing, robustness and reliability testing, high-power cycle testing, high-bandwidth power testing, energy storage testing, and numerous other types of tests involved in AI power system validation. Design and prototype custom components as may be needed to support the Graphcore power architecture. This includes the low-level design of power conversion hardware and rapid prototyping. Su

Why RoboForce RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI–powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The company's robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability. We are looking for a Senior / Staff AI Research Scientist, Foundation Models to advance robotic embodied intelligence. In this role, you will develop algorithms that enable robots to understand their environment, interpret and execute tasks, and communicate seamlessly with humans — with a particular focus on building and training world models that allow robots to predict, plan, and generalize across complex physical tasks. Responsibilities Design and deploy vision-language(-action) models (VLM/VLA) for contextual understanding and generalized robot action policies. Develop and train world models for action-conditioned prediction, long-horizon planning, and environment simulation — enabling robots to reason about the consequences of their actions before execution. Research approaches to improve world model fidelity using multi-modal inputs including vision, language, proprioception, and spatial representations. Develop foundation models with spatial reasoning capabilities to achieve high-precision robotic actions. Integrate multi-modal data sources (vision, language, speech, etc.) to enable natural human-robot communication. Optimize and deploy models as production-grade solutions on RoboForce robotic platforms. Requirements PhD degree in Machine Learning, Robotics, or related field, or Master's degree with 4+ years of relevant experience. Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX). Expertise in large foundation models (VLM, VLA, etc.). Strong understanding of world model architectures and action-conditioned generative modeling for robot learning. Decent understanding of multimodal models, modern ML architectures (transformers, diffusion models, etc.). Requires 5 d

Why RoboForce RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI–powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The company's robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability. We are looking for a Senior / Staff AI Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure to build the data and learning engine behind RoboForce's Physical AI stack. In this role, you will own the full pipeline — from raw teleoperation and UMI device data collection through curation, annotation, and storage, to post-training infrastructure that scores demonstrations, identifies failure patterns, and closes the loop back into model retraining. Responsibilities Design and maintain end-to-end data collection pipelines ingesting multimodal demonstration data from teleoperation devices and UMI hardware, including synchronization, versioning, and distributed storage at scale. Build annotation tooling and data curation workflows — quality filtering, deduplication, episode scoring, and domain reweighting — to produce high-quality training datasets for robot policy learning. Develop post-SFT reinforcement learning infrastructure: implement reward scoring on demonstrations, mine and categorize failure patterns, and feed curated failure data back into the retraining loop. Build evaluation and test infrastructure to log policy rollouts on-robot, capture structured results, and surface actionable diagnostics for the research team. Collaborate with ML researchers to define data schemas, episode formats, and pipeline interfaces that support rapid iteration on VLA and manipulation policy training. Architect scalable storage and retrieval systems for heterogeneous robot data (vision, proprioception, action, language) across both cloud and on-prem environments. Requirements Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field with 5+ years of experience. Strong proficiency in Python and experience build

Why RoboForce RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI–powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The company’s robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability. We are seeking Senior / Staff Robotics Engineer, Manipulation to own the arm autonomy stack. You will architect the algorithms that allow our robot to reach, grasp, and manipulate objects safely and intelligently. You will bridge the gap between high-level planning and low-level control, ensuring our robot can interact with the world with both precision and compliance. Responsibilities Advanced Motion Planning & Trajectory Generation: You will architect the algorithms that drive high-DOF arm motion in dynamic environments. This involves implementing constrained motion planners that generate smooth, jerk-limited trajectories in real-time. You will also solve the "Whole Body" control problem, coordinating the mobile base and the manipulator arm simultaneously to extend the robot's workspace and maintain stability during heavy lifting tasks. Interaction Control & Compliance: You will develop the low-level control strategies that enable the robot to physically interact with the world safely. This includes designing and tuning impedance/admittance controllers that allow the robot to modulate stiffness based on force feedback—essential for tasks like opening heavy doors or plugging in connectors. Teleoperation & Human-Robot Interface: You will build the mathematical engine behind our remote manipulation capabilities. You are responsible for the logic that translates human operator inputs into feasible, safe robot motions. You will design the control mapping and assistance layers that ensure remote manipulation feels intuitive and stable, managing the complex translation between human intent and the robot's physical constraints without compromising safety. Requirements Experience: Ph.D. in Robot