Deft Ai
Machine Learning Engineer
On-siteFull-time
$150,000 to $200,000 a year
About the job
What you'll do ● Design and develop a modular robot autonomy stack that composes Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models with purpose-built modules to enable grasping and dexterous behaviors in unstructured environments ● Develop action refinement and safety layers that post-process VLA outputs — constraint satisfaction, collision and force guards, smoothing, and runtime monitors for safety-critical deployment ● Architect clean interfaces and abstractions around base VLA models so they can be swapped, benchmarked, and upgraded as the SOTA evolves — keeping the stack model-agnostic ● Design and maintain robust data collection and curation pipelines for production robot fleets ● Build reliable...