Machine Learning Engineer: Imitation and Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- Hybrid · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Join the team bringing advanced autonomy to the built world
At Bedrock, we're moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we're deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction equipment across the country, improving safety on job sites and accelerating schedules on critical infrastructure projects.
We're not here debating the future of AI. We're deploying it in the real world. In just two years, we've raised $350M and achieved the first fully autonomous excavator deployments in construction.
Bedrock Robotics's standard text
This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You'll work alongside construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can't touch. If you're ready to do meaningful work on hard problems, we'd love to have you join us.
The Mission:
We’re looking for a Machine Learning Engineer with a focus on behavior learning, specifically data-driven behavior policies and robust data infrastructure. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing and scaling state-of-the-art learning architectures, while also building the data systems that make these models reliable, scalable, and reproducible in production.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, train, validate, and launch models for behavior cloning and reinforcement learning
- Build and maintain data ingestion, labeling, and management pipelines to ensure high-quality training datasets
- Build metrics to evaluate model performance in open loop, simulation, and in the real world
- Collaborate with simulation, systems, and infrastructure teams to integrate ML models into real-world autonomous systems
- Deploy and debug these models in real-world environments, addressing practical issues such as latency, hardware constraints, and system integration
What We’re Looking For:
- 3+ years of practical experience applying Machine Learning with Deep Learning frameworks, such as PyTorch/Tensorflow/JAX to solve real-world problems
- 3+ years of professional experience building, deploying, and maintaining Machine Learning models in production environments
- Familiarity with recent literature and methods in learned behavior policies
- Practical experience in behavior cloning and/or reinforcement learning
- Bonus: Experience with diffusion policies, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, or related technologies
- Bonus: Published work in conferences such as ICRA, IROS, CoRL, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICML, NeurIPS, …
Bedrock Robotics's standard text
Bedrock Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.
Reasonable Accommodations
We want our hiring process to be accessible to everyone. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know so we can support you.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Deep Learning · TensorFlow
Rare in Bedrock Robotics's other 43 open postings.
Standard for data science / ML roles
Machine Learning · PyTorch
Common in data science / ML postings at any company.
72% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Bedrock Robotics's standard text, folded away below.
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The team: Behavior HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 3 open in Behavior. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in January: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Machine Learning (3 of 3), PyTorch (3 of 3), Python (2 of 3)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- 2027 Internship Behavior ML Engineer, Learned Manipulation Policies posted Oct 2
- 2027 Internship Behavior Machine Learning Engineer, World Models posted Sep 10
From the team and dates on Bedrock Robotics's own job board.
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