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Founding Engineer: Manipulation

Intelligence Factory
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New York City, NY$80k - $200k + equityFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Founding engineer role at Intelligence Factory focused on building foundation models for deploying general-purpose manipulation robots. Own end-to-end model pipeline with hands-on work in data, training, evaluation, and deployment to bridge real-world performance from 40% to 99%.

Responsibilities

  • Own the train-test-deploy loop: curation, training runs, evaluation, deployment
  • Select and tune architectures for our foundation model
  • Collaborate with research organizations
  • Set technical direction for the model team

Qualifications

  • Experience implementing models end-to-end on robots, or research experience in VLAs, world models, or imitation learning
  • Proof of decision-making with incomplete information
  • Extremely competitive nature
  • No aversion to unglamorous work, in robotics, research and debugging have to go hand-in-hand
  • A track record that shows you genuinely want to see robots deployed in the real world, projects, research, or competitions

Skills

Required:End-to-end model development (train-test-deploy)Foundation model architecture selection and tuningRobotics deployment

Benefits

  • Incredible office in NYC. Equipment budget, meals, etc.
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Human Intelligence for Robots

Robotics is the new paradigm. With hardware converging, Intelligence is the biggest bottleneck. Our world was built for humans and we're giving robots the ability to reason and act like us. The way we learn any task - by seeing, doing, and feeling - is how we train robots. We're building general intelligence that works on any robot and fits seamlessly within our world.

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