figureai
Helix AI Engineer, Modeling
At a Glance
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States
- Posted
- 2026-04-09T11:23:45-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
- Robotics
Requirements
Strong understanding of modern model architectures (e.g., transformers and related approaches)
Experience improving model performance through architectural innovation and experimentation
Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch
Strong experimental rigor and ability to iterate on model design and performance
Experience working on frontier models at companies such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, or xAI
Familiarity with embodied AI, robotics, or real-world ML systems
Responsibilities
Build models that learn structured representations of the world, including objects, dynamics, and interactions
Work across the model lifecycle, from initial research and prototyping to training and deployment
Collaborate closely with pretraining, video, generative, RL, and robot learning teams to integrate modeling advances into the full autonomy stack
Design experiments and evaluation frameworks to understand model behavior and guide iteration
Contribute to the development of new modeling paradigms for embodied AI systems