Your Mission RobCo is spearheading a revolution in modular robotics — making automation radically easier, more flexible, and more intelligent. With over €50 million in funding from world-class investors such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed, we are building the category-leading robotics company in Europe and the US.

As a Senior Research Engineer - Robot Learning, you will drive the development, adaptation, and real-world deployment of cutting-edge learning-based techniques for robotic manipulation. You will work at the intersection of machine learning, robotics, and systems engineering - scouting state-of-the-art research and translating it into robust, scalable capabilities that run on real robots every day.

You will shape the core of RobCo’s robot learning stack: model selection, policy training, evaluation frameworks, and sim-to-real workflows. As a senior member of the team, you will mentor junior engineers and guide key technical decisions while keeping the stack pragmatic, efficient, and aligned with product needs.

Your Responsibilities

• Research, benchmark, and evaluate state-of-the-art robot learning methods (e.g., VLA models, transformers, diffusion policies, RL, visuomotor models)
• Adapt academic models for real-world deployment with a focus on robustness, latency, and safety
• Develop proprietary robot learning models tailored to RobCo’s data, hardware, and modular platform

Your Profile

• Advanced degree (Master’s; PhD preferred) in Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field
• 5-10+ years of experience in robot learning research or ML for robotics (industry or academic)
• Strong grounding in imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and simulation-to-real transfer. Publication record at conferences like CoRL, Humanoids, RSS, IROS, NeurIPS, ICLR a strong plus
• Hands-on experience deploying learned policies on real robotic systems
• Excellent Python skills; experience with PyTorch, JAX, HuggingFace, or similar frameworks
• Ability to design experiments, evaluate models rigorously, and communicate results clearly

Why us?

• Shape the future of learning-based robotics from the ground up
• Research-focused environment with a direct path to real-world deployment
• Access to simulation tools, large datasets, real robot fleets, and scalable cloud compute
• High degree of ownership, autonomy, and influence on long-term robot learning strategy
• Hybrid work model, flexible hours, and high-performance equipment

Join RobCo and build the next generation of ML-driven robotic intelligence.

About Us RobCo is spearheading a revolution in robotics, empowering businesses to thrive by supercharging productivity and freeing them from labor shortage. We are searching for you to build RobCo into the category-leading robotics company in Europe and the US. We’ve raised more than $50 million from the world’s best VCs, such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed, as well as the founders of UiPath, Helsing, Pitch, and other companies to fulfill our mission.

At RobCo, applicants are selected regardless of ethnic origin, religion, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation. All decisions throughout the recruitment process are based solely on the qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience of the applicants and the relevant business requirements.