Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted 85 days ago

Vice President, Robot Learning

Recruiting301 open roles

Where
Palo Alto, California, United States
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowVice President, Robot LearningRecruiting · Palo Alto, California, United States

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Recruiting's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

8.0% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 1.6%1 day
  2. 3.6%3 days
  3. 8.0%7 days
  4. 15.0%14 days
  5. 34.2%30 days
This job: posted 85 days ago

The posting

Vice President, Robot Learning

Confidential | Early-Stage Robotics Startup | San Francisco Bay Area, CA

About the Opportunity

We're partnering with an ambitious early-stage robotics company building the next generation of humanoid telepresence systems for industrial work.

The company's mission is to make dangerous, highly skilled physical work safer and more accessible by enabling expert operators to remotely control humanoid robots with real-time visual, auditory, and haptic feedback. These systems are deployed in complex environments including energy infrastructure, industrial facilities, manufacturing, and other hazardous settings.

A core part of the long-term vision is transforming teleoperation data into increasingly autonomous robotic capabilities. Rather than treating teleoperation as a temporary solution, the company views it as the foundation for building high-quality robot learning systems based on real-world interaction, force feedback, and task execution.

This is an opportunity to define the robot learning strategy at a company where machine learning is central to the product roadmap.

The Role

We're seeking a Vice President of Robot Learning to lead the company's robot learning organization and own the roadmap from teleoperation data collection through to learned policies and increasing levels of autonomy.

This is a highly technical leadership role for someone who enjoys building from first principles, working closely with hardware and software teams, and translating cutting-edge robotics research into production systems.

You'll have the opportunity to shape both the technical direction and the team as the company scales.

What You'll Do

  • Own the robot learning strategy and technical roadmap.
  • Build the data pipeline that transforms teleoperation sessions into high-quality training data.
  • Develop learning systems for contact-rich robotic manipulation using real-world demonstrations.
  • Design and deploy imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and policy optimization approaches for physical robots.
  • Work closely with robotics, controls, perception, and hardware engineers to build an integrated robotic system.
  • Lead the evolution from teleoperated workflows toward progressively autonomous capabilities.
  • Build, mentor, and grow a world-class robot learning organization.
  • Establish technical direction, research priorities, and engineering best practices.
  • Drive experimentation, deployment, and continuous improvement using real-world operational data.

What We're Looking For

Required

  • PhD or equivalent expertise in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • Significant experience building robot learning systems for real-world robotic manipulation.
  • Deep expertise in imitation learning, reinforcement learning, policy learning, or related techniques.
  • Experience working with physical robots rather than purely simulated environments.
  • Strong understanding of contact-rich manipulation, force feedback, and real-world robotic control.
  • Track record of shipping robotics systems from research into production.
  • Experience leading highly technical teams or serving as the technical leader for a major robotics initiative.

Preferred

Experience from leading robotics organizations or research groups such as:

  • OpenAI Robotics
  • Google DeepMind Robotics
  • Physical Intelligence
  • Toyota Research Institute
  • Figure AI
  • Agility Robotics
  • Covariant
  • Skild AI
  • Sanctuary AI
  • Dexterity
  • Intrinsic
  • Boston Dynamics
  • Other leading manipulation or humanoid robotics companies

Particularly valuable experience includes:

  • Learning from teleoperation or human demonstrations
  • Building commercial robot learning data pipelines
  • Manipulation in contact-rich environments
  • Haptic interfaces or force-controlled robotics
  • Multi-modal learning using vision, force, and proprioception
  • Scaling robot learning infrastructure across fleets

Who You Are

  • Builder-first with a passion for deploying robotics in the real world.
  • Comfortable operating in an early-stage, fast-moving environment.
  • Excited by ambiguous technical problems with significant ownership.
  • Able to balance long-term research vision with near-term product execution.
  • Motivated by building a team, not just contributing individually.
  • Collaborative, hands-on, and deeply technical.

Why Join

  • Define the robot learning strategy from an early stage.
  • Build systems that operate in challenging, real-world industrial environments.
  • Work across hardware, controls, perception, and AI to solve end-to-end robotics problems.
  • Help shape the future of intelligent humanoid robotics.
  • Significant technical ownership with the opportunity to build and lead a high-impact organization.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California (onsite)

Employment Type: Full-time

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Recruiting's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Recruiting's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Recruiting's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.