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ML Engineer - API Platform

Physical Intelligence · San Francisco

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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
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