Machine Learning Engineer: Imitation and Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

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Summary

Location

San Francisco, United States

Work

Full-time

Experience

3+ years

About this Job

Join the team bringing advanced autonomy to the built world

At Bedrock, we’re moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team is composed of industry veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we’re deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction machinery across the country, accelerating project schedules of billion-dollar infrastructure projects and improving safety on job sites. Backed by $350M in funding, we’re working quickly to close the gap between America's surging demand for housing, data centers, manufacturing hubs, and the construction industry's growing labor shortage.

This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You’ll collaborate with construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can’t touch. If you're ready to apply cutting-edge technology to solve meaningful problems alongside a talented team—we'd love to have you join us.

We’re looking for a Machine Learning Engineer with a focus on behavior learning, specifically data-driven behavior policies and robust data infrastructure. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing and scaling state-of-the-art learning architectures, while also building the data systems that make these models reliable, scalable, and reproducible in production.

What You’ll Do:

  • Design, train, validate, and launch models for behavior cloning and reinforcement learning

  • Build and maintain data ingestion, labeling, and management pipelines to ensure high-quality training datasets

  • Build metrics to evaluate model performance in open loop, simulation, and in the real world

  • Collaborate with simulation, systems, and infrastructure teams to integrate ML models into real-world autonomous systems

  • Deploy and debug these models in real-world environments, addressing practical issues such as latency, hardware constraints, and system integration

What We’re Looking For:

  • 3+ years of practical experience applying Machine Learning with Deep Learning frameworks, such as PyTorch/Tensorflow/JAX to solve real-world problems

  • 3+ years of professional experience building, deploying, and maintaining Machine Learning models in production environments

  • Familiarity with recent literature and methods in learned behavior policies

  • Practical experience in behavior cloning and/or reinforcement learning

  • Bonus: Experience with diffusion policies, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, or related technologies

  • Bonus: Published work in conferences such as ICRA, IROS, CoRL, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICML, NeurIPS, …

Our roles are often flexible. If you don't fit all the criteria, or are in another location (especially one where we have an office like SF or NY) please apply anyway! We'd love to consider you.

About the Company

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Bedrock Robotics

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Bedrock Robotics is an autonomous construction technology company based in San Francisco, founded in 2024 by former leaders from Waymo. The company focuses on transforming the heavy construction equipment industry by enabling existing machinery to operate fully autonomously through its aftermarket hardware and software platform, the Bedrock Operator. The Bedrock Operator equips heavy equipment, starting with excavators, with a kit that includes LiDAR, GPS, inertial measurement units, high-definition cameras, and an in-cab computer. This system allows machines to operate continuously with high precision, enhancing project timelines, worker safety, and productivity tracking without permanent modifications to the equipment. Bedrock Robotics addresses challenges in the construction industry, such as labor shortages and the need for faster project completion, by enabling machines to work in demanding conditions where human operators would need breaks. The company has secured $80 million in funding and collaborates with various contractors and construction material suppliers to test and deploy its technology. Bedrock Robotics offers autonomy hardware and software kits, machine intelligence software, remote monitoring tools, and consultation services to help construction firms integrate autonomous technology into their workflows.

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