Figure AI
Robotics · Humanoid robots
- HQ
- Sunnyvale, US
- Founded
- 2022
- Website
- figure.ai
Figure AI currently has 27 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 56%, are focused on data, with application roles making up another 26%. The dominant function across these listings is Engineering. Frequent tech tags include embodied AI, model serving, and multimodal. Over the last 30 days, Figure AI posted 4 new AI roles, representing a 56% decrease compared to the prior 30-day period.
Currently tracking 22 active AI roles, down 47% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Data · Engineering. Salary range $52k–$400k (avg $201k).
Figure AI currently has 28 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Helix Data Creator (3), Deployment Engineer - Commercial Site Team (2), AI Data Operations Lead, AI Training Infrastructure Engineer – Humanoid Whole Body Control, Data Quality Analyst. Most positions are in Engineering.
Figure AI's active AI hiring is concentrated in: data (46%), application (29%), serving infrastructure (7%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Job postings at Figure AI most frequently reference: embodied ai, model serving, multimodal, vision, rl robotics.
In the past 30 days, Figure AI has posted 2 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Helix AI Engineer, Pretraining Figure AI is seeking a Helix AI Engineer, Pretraining to build large-scale foundation models for their humanoid robots. This role focuses on advancing pretraining methods across multimodal data (text, vision, robot experience) to enable generalization, reasoning, and adaptability for embodied AI systems. Responsibilities include designing and training models, developing pretraining strategies, exploring architectures, optimizing distributed training pipelines, and collaborating with other AI teams. Requirements include experience training large-scale foundation models, understanding of modern deep learning architectures, and proficiency in Python/PyTorch. | PretrainPost-train | 10 |
| Staff Reinforcement Learning Engineer – Whole Body Control Staff Reinforcement Learning Engineer to develop, train, deploy, and evaluate advanced reinforcement learning algorithms for whole body control of humanoid robots, focusing on sim-to-real transfer and robustness. | ShipData | 10 |
| Helix AI Engineer, Agentic Systems Figure AI is seeking an AI Engineer for Agentic Systems to build multimodal reasoning systems for autonomous humanoid robots. The role involves designing, training, and deploying agents that operate from raw sensory input, maintain memory, plan long-term, and execute tasks reliably in real environments. Responsibilities include developing agent architectures, infrastructure, perception-reasoning-action loops, evaluation harnesses, and applying reinforcement learning techniques. The position requires strong Python, deep learning framework proficiency, and software engineering skills. | AgentData | 10 |
| AI Training Infrastructure Engineer – Humanoid Whole Body Control Figure AI is seeking an AI Training Infrastructure Engineer to own and scale the training and deployment backbone for their RL-based whole-body control systems for humanoid robots. This role involves building and optimizing infrastructure for simulation, data pipelines, orchestration, and visualization, with a focus on accelerating iteration cycles and enabling the deployment of new capabilities to their robot fleet. The position requires strong software engineering skills in Python and PyTorch, experience with robotics/ML training infrastructure, familiarity with physics simulators, and knowledge of reinforcement learning. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Helix AI Engineer, Modeling AI Engineer focused on developing core model architectures and learning approaches for humanoid robot autonomy, spanning perception, reasoning, and action across multimodal inputs. The role involves designing, training, and deploying models, with a focus on advancing multimodal learning and generalization for embodied AI systems. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Helix AI Engineer, Reinforcement Learning Figure AI is seeking a Helix AI Engineer specializing in Reinforcement Learning to develop learning systems for humanoid robots. This role involves designing, implementing, and training RL algorithms for embodied agents in both simulated and real-world environments, focusing on improving policy performance, robustness, and long-horizon decision-making. The engineer will work on reward modeling, credit assignment, exploration, and integrating RL into the full autonomy stack, while also building scalable training systems and evaluation frameworks. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Helix AI Engineer, Video Pretraining Figure AI is seeking a Helix AI Engineer focused on Video Pretraining to lead the development of large-scale video foundation models. This role involves designing and training models on diverse datasets, developing pretraining strategies for temporal dynamics, and building models that learn transferable representations for downstream tasks in perception, prediction, and embodied reasoning. The engineer will optimize performance, implement efficient data pipelines, and collaborate with other AI teams, while also designing evaluation frameworks. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Helix AI Engineer, Generative AI Figure AI is seeking a Helix AI Engineer, Generative AI to build and scale generative models for humanoid robots. This role involves training and deploying diffusion and generative models for vision, video, and multimodal data, with applications in perception, synthetic data generation, and model-based reasoning. The engineer will optimize training pipelines, integrate models into the autonomy stack, and evaluate their quality. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Helix AI Engineer, Robot Learning Figure AI is seeking a Helix AI Engineer specializing in Robot Learning to develop and deploy visuomotor manipulation policies for their humanoid robots. The role involves designing, training, and evaluating learning-based policies using techniques like behavior cloning and reinforcement learning, with a strong emphasis on real-world robot deployment and data collection. | ShipData | 9 |
| Helix AI Engineer, Training Infrastructure Figure AI is seeking an experienced Training Infrastructure Engineer to manage and enhance their training clusters, implement distributed training algorithms, and build tools for AI researchers working on humanoid robots. The role involves architecting scalable deep learning frameworks for massive robot datasets and optimizing model development cycles. | Data | 8 |
| Humanoid Robot Pilot Figure AI is seeking a Humanoid Robot Pilot to guide their learning humanoid robots through designated behaviors, collect data for AI training, and refine robot behaviors. This role involves teleoperation, identifying issues, and reporting feedback to the AI team. It requires physical coordination, focus, and the ability to learn new tasks quickly. Experience with robots or mechanical systems is a plus. | DataPost-train | 8 |
| Helix AI Engineer, Perception Figure AI is seeking a Perception / Computer Vision Software Engineer for their Helix Team to develop and deploy novel computer vision models and algorithms for humanoid robots. The role involves the full development lifecycle, including data preparation, training deep neural networks, building data and evaluation pipelines, and shipping production-level software for real-world deployment. | ShipData | 8 |
| Helix AI Engineer, Android Figure AI is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to build the mobile interface for their humanoid robots. This role involves low-level Android systems, NDK, real-time sensor/video pipelines, and on-device AI inference at the edge. The engineer will architect high-throughput data ingestion, implement custom HALs, optimize edge processing under constraints, and integrate AI inference libraries. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Deployment Engineer - Commercial Site Team Figure AI is seeking a Deployment Engineer to support the development and deployment of their AI humanoid robots in commercial customer sites. The role involves creating and executing testing plans, analyzing data, debugging, and communicating feedback to engineering. Requires experience in robotics integration, deployment, and development, with a focus on transitioning products from design to commercialization. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Helix Data Creator (LA- Santa Monica) Figure AI is seeking Helix Data Creators to support their humanoid robot development. This role involves wearing sensors to guide robots and collect motion data for training AI models. It's a one-month contract-to-hire position with potential for growth into other robotics roles. | Data | 7 |
| Helix Data Creator (LA- Irvine/Santa Ana) Figure AI is seeking Helix Data Creators to support their humanoid robot development. This role involves wearing sensors to guide robots and collect motion data for training AI models. It's a one-month contract with potential for longer-term roles in robotics operations. Requires excellent physical coordination and ability to learn quickly. | Data | 7 |
| Deployment Engineer - Commercial Site Team Figure AI is seeking a Deployment Engineer to support the development and deployment of their humanoid robots at customer sites. The role involves creating and executing testing plans, analyzing data, debugging, and communicating feedback to engineering. Requires experience in robotics integration, deployment, and development, with a focus on transitioning products from design to commercialization. | Ship | 7 |
| Safety Systems Architect Figure AI is seeking a Systems Architect to lead the on-board safety solutions for their general-purpose humanoid robot, which operates in industrial and home environments. This hands-on role is critical for shipping the product at scale and involves defining and driving the safety architecture from design to implementation, including validation and failure analysis. The role requires extensive experience in robotics/autonomous systems, fault tolerance, and embedded systems. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Software Integration Engineer Figure AI is seeking a Software Integration Engineer to join their Systems Integration Team, acting as a bridge between AI, Controls, Firmware, and Hardware for their humanoid robots. This role focuses on ensuring the cohesive functioning of all components, owning core software features from concept to delivery, and blending software development with system-level problem-solving to ensure a stable and reliable robot platform ready for AI development and evaluation. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer who thrives in ambiguity, learns quickly, and takes ownership of problems end-to-end, operating with a first-principles mindset to improve system reliability, scalability, and performance. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Helix Data Creator Figure AI is seeking Helix Data Creators to support their humanoid robot development. This role involves wearing sensors to collect motion data for training AI models, with potential for growth into longer-term robotics roles. The position requires physical coordination, focus, and the ability to learn new tasks quickly. | Data | 7 |
| Robotics Integration Engineer Figure AI is seeking a Robotics Integration Engineer to drive system-level integration and validation across hardware, firmware, controls, AI, perception, and software for their general-purpose humanoid robot. The role involves planning and executing subsystem integration, full-system bring-up, debugging, root cause analysis, and validating system functionality to ensure reliable performance in real-world applications. Responsibilities include developing test tools, designing validation plans, debugging cross-disciplinary issues, and contributing to automation of regression testing. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Helix AI Engineer, Data Infrastructure Figure AI is seeking an experienced Data Infrastructure Engineer to build and manage the AI data infrastructure for their humanoid robot company. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining tools for robot data offloading, storage, manipulation, and access, managing on-premise and cloud resources, and supporting data pipelines from recording to neural network training. The ideal candidate has experience with large-scale autonomous/deep learning systems. | Data | 7 |