Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots aiming for human-level intelligence. They are seeking a Helix AI Engineer for Agentic Systems to develop multimodal reasoning systems that enable robots to operate autonomously and reliably in real-world environments.
Responsibilities :
• Design, train, and deploy multimodal agents that operate autonomously for hours to days
• Build agents that reason from raw sensory inputs (pixels, environment state, proprioception) to structured actions
• Implement episodic memory systems for persistent state, retrieval, and long-horizon reasoning
• Develop planning, reasoning, and tool-use mechanisms for multi-step task execution
• Build reliable perception → reasoning → action loops with strong stability and failure recovery
• Design evaluation harnesses, benchmarks, and metrics to measure agent reasoning, planning, and reliability
• Design and run data studies across the training lifecycle, including pretraining, mid-training, and post-training
• Apply reinforcement learning, reward modeling, and post-training techniques to improve agent reasoning and reliability in real-world environments
• Develop evaluation frameworks and benchmarks to measure robot reasoning, planning, and task success across diverse scenarios
• Build infrastructure for scalable model training, distributed experimentation, and agent evaluation
• Work closely with other teams to integrate agent models into the full humanoid autonomy stack
Qualifications :
Required :
• Experience building autonomous agents that run continuously and complete multi-step tasks
• Experience developing agents that reason from pixel inputs or raw environment observations
• Experience implementing agent memory, planning, reasoning, or tool-use systems
• Experience training or fine-tuning multimodal or foundation models
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch)
• Strong experimental rigor and ability to design, analyze, and iterate on ML systems
• Strong software engineering skills and ability to build reliable, maintainable systems
• Ability to work independently and own complex technical problems end-to-end
Preferred :
• Experience with embodied AI, robotics learning, or robot policy training
• Experience building multimodal foundation models (vision-language or vision-language-action)
• Background in agentic AI systems or long-horizon planning architectures
• Experience working with large-scale distributed training systems
• Publication record in machine learning, robotics, or embodied AI
• Passion for building autonomous humanoid robots that operate in the real world
Company :
Figure is an AI robotics company that develops autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in San Jose, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.