ML Engineer - API Platform
Physical Intelligence · San Francisco
CHECKED 15H AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build end-to-end model API for fine-tuning, evaluation, and robot inference.
- Scale platform from handful of partners to thousands of orgs, millions of robots.
- Operate low-latency inference systems controlling robots in real-world environments.
Ideal candidate
A product-minded backend builder who has shipped developer platforms and loves turning ambiguous research capabilities into reliable, intuitive APIs. High-ownership generalist comfortable owning systems end to end.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with production systems experience
- Deep backend and systems experience across APIs, services, databases, caching, distributed systems
- Experience building and scaling developer platforms, ideally for fine-tuning or inference
- Understanding of reliability, latency, multi-tenancy, versioning, and observability at scale
- Familiarity with deploying, serving, and debugging ML systems in production
- Strong Python skills across infrastructure and product boundaries
- High ownership, comfortable taking ambiguous problems end to end
Lab profile
About Physical Intelligence
Developing general-purpose AI foundation models to power robots for any physical task.
What they build
- General-purpose robot foundation models
- Learning algorithms for robot control
- Robotic systems and platforms
Known for
- Foundation model and system-building research
- Large-scale multimodal robot data operations
- Real-world fleet deployment and operations
- Prototype-to-production hardware engineering