Head of VLA Development

Proactive
London
7 months ago
Applications closed
Posted
8 Oct 2025 (7 months ago)

Specialists in sectors like manufacturing, construction, and logistics face rising challenges. We believe that our mission can prevent the massive shortages in fast - paced world and its specific dynamics. All involved into robotics industry.

What You'll Do :

Set and drive the strategy for representation learning, behaviour cloning andreinforcement learning (RL).

Lead large-scale post-training of multi-modal LLM / VLM / VLA systems; continuously integrate new sensor modalities (vision, audio, proprioception, LiDAR, point cloud, …).

Build always-on pipelines that collect sim + tele-op logs, store them in a versioned lake, transform / label streams with weak supervision, curate balanced datasets and run an evaluation loop that feeds fresh failure cases back into training.

Partner with MLOps and Data Platform teams to scale distributed training and optimisemodels for real-time edge deployment.

Hire, mentor and unblock a small, elite team of research scientists and

We're Looking For :

6+ years building deep-learning systems, 2+ years technical team

Hands-on experience with LLM / VLM architecture design, billion-parameter training and fine-tuning.

Proven robotics, autonomous driving or LLMs expertise (behaviour cloning, actor-critic, offline RL) applied to robotics or autonomous driving.

Nice to have :

Deployment on humanoid or legged

Demonstrated record of shipping to real robots or vehicles and iterating via data-flywheel

Experience in autonomous vehicle control and

Research or open-source work in multi-modal transformers, diffusion control, world

Familiarity with OpenVLA, Physical Intelligence (π) models or other open-source VLA frameworks. - a bit used with OpenVLA no Physical Intelligence

What We Offer :

Competitive salary plus participation in our Stock Option Plan

Paid vacation with adjustments based on your location to comply with local labor laws

Travel opportunities to our Vancouver and Boston offices

Office perks: free breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and regular team events

Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives

Collaboration with top-tier engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics

Startup culture prioritizing speed, transparency, and minimal bureaucracy

How to Apply:

For more information on the role, or an informal discussion regarding opportunities we have available, please contact Alicja Szymanska on (phone number removed) or email :

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