Helix AI Engineer, Video Pretraining

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, Video Pretraining to lead the development of large-scale video foundation models trained on diverse real-world and robot-collected data. This role focuses on pretraining models that learn from raw video—capturing motion, interaction, and temporal structure—to enable downstream capabilities in perception, prediction, and embodied reasoning. Responsibilities: - Design and train large-scale video foundation models on diverse datasets spanning internet-scale video and robot-collected data - Develop pretraining strategies that capture temporal dynamics, motion, and object interaction from raw video sequences - Build models that learn transferable representations for downstream tasks such as perception, tracking, prediction, and control - Explore architectures for video unders...