Machine Learning Research Engineer/Scientist

Responsibilities

• Design and develop state-of-the-art robot learning algorithms for manipulation and controls
• Leverage large-scale in-the-wild data collection to develop generalizable robot behaviors
• Own the end-to-end loop from task definition and data curation to model training, evaluation, and on-robot deployment
• Collaborate closely with a full-stack robotics team to develop a consumer personal robot
• Write maintainable, production quality code for research and deployment

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience working on machine learning for robotics, controls, or perception
• Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch preferred)
• Hands-on experience with robot learning for real-world tasks, including offline/online training and evaluation
• Experience implementing tooling for visualization, debugging, and evaluation of data and learning pipelines
• Strong communication skills and ability to thrive in fast-moving, cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with classical robotics fundamentals such as controls, planning, and state estimation
• Experience profiling and optimizing for latency, memory, and compute on edge devices
• Experience with large-scale model training pipelines (LLM/VLM/VLA)

About the Company

Sunday Robotics is developing personal robots designed to reclaim the hours lost to repetitive tasks. We are tackling the grand challenge of dexterous and safe mobile manipulation in unstructured home environments by building across the entire robotics stack, from large-scale data collection to consumer hardware.