Robotic Trainer Technician (VLA / Robot Learning)

About the role

We are a Van Nuys robotics company training Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models to run on real hardware. We are looking for a hands-on Robotic Trainer Technician to help us collect data, teleoperate our robots, and stand up the training and evaluation loop that turns demonstrations into working manipulation policies. This is a practical, in-the-lab role: you will spend real hours driving the robot and making the data pipeline reproducible, not just reading papers. What you'll do: - Teleoperate and remote-operate our robots to collect demonstration data, with consistent, focused execution over several hours per day - Train and iterate on VLA policies for manipulation tasks - Stand up reproducible training and evaluation infrastructure (data capture, logging, eval runs) - Run repeated trials, label outcomes, and feed results back into the next training iteration What we're looking for: - Hands-on experience with ML engineering or research (training and evaluating models, not just using them) - Comfort with real-hardware robotics and repetitive, precise teleoperation - Available onsite in Van Nuys - Reliable, self-directed, and able to keep execution consistent over long sessions Nice to have: - Direct experience with VLA models, imitation learning, behavior cloning, or diffusion policies - Familiarity with ROS, MuJoCo / Isaac Sim, or similar - A portfolio or examples of real-robot work Logistics: Compensation is $20/hr. Hours are variable to start and will ramp up over time as the program scales. This is an onsite role in Van Nuys.

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