Helix AI Engineer, Modeling

Job description

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. Our goal is to build embodied AI systems that can perceive, reason, and act in the real world. Figure is headquartered in San Jose, CA, and this role requires 5 days/week in-office collaboration. Our Helix team is responsible for developing the core AI systems that power humanoid autonomy. We are looking for a Helix AI Engineer, Modeling to design and advance the core model architectures and learning approaches that enable perception, reasoning, and action in embodied systems. This role focuses on developing new modeling approaches across vision, language, and action—spanning representation learning, multimodal fusion, and model capabilities that directly impact robot intelligence. Responsibilities: - Design and develop model architectures for perception, reasoning, and action across multimodal inputs (e.g., vision, language, proprioception) - Build models that learn structured representations of the world, including objects, dynamics, and interactions - Advance multimodal learning approaches, including fusion, alignment, and cross-modal reasoning - Improve model capabilities in areas such as ge...