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Tau Robotics

Founding Engineer, ML Systems (Robotics)

CompanyTau Robotics
Websitetau-robotics.com
RoleFounding Engineer, ML Systems (Robotics)
Typefull-time
Role taxonomyHardware / Robotics / Embedded
SpecialtiesRobotics
LocationSan Francisco
Salary
Apply viaEmailalex@tau-robotics.com
Hiring notes
TechPythonKubernetesML/AI
Parsed locationsSan Francisco
Posted byalexanderkoch
PostedJan 2, 2026
SourceView on Hacker News ↗

Original posting

Tau Robotics | Founding Engineer, ML Systems (Robotics) | San Francisco | ONSITE | Full-time We’re building a general AI for humanoid robots using world-model-based reinforcement learning trained on large-scale real-world data. This is a founding engineer role. You’ll work directly with the founders and own core parts of the training and data systems. Work - Build data pipelines for large-scale multimodal robot datasets - Scale pre- and post-training runs to large GPU clusters - Improve inference efficiency on low-power embedded systems Stack: Python, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Ray, Lance, dora-rs Contact: alex [at] tau-robotics.com