Aktoria Robotics

Human as API for robots

Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models)

$250K - $500K1.00% - 2.00%San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Science, Research
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
Will sponsor
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Jaskaran Singh Walia
Jaskaran Singh Walia
Founder

About the role

- Train / fine-tune VLAs and robot foundation models

- Run data-quality ablations and scaling studies

- Publish papers and benchmarks

- data curation, filtering, formats, evals on real robots

expected to have:

- experience training IL/VLA policies at scale

- First-author publications (CoRL/ICRA/IROS/RSS/NeurIPS) or equivalent strong open-source work

About Aktoria Robotics

Aktoria builds remote teleoperation software for robots. A remote operator can run a robot anywhere in the world as if standing right next to it. Our product is what makes deployed robots useful today.

Aktoria Robotics
Founded:2026
Batch:S26
Team Size:6
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Shreenabh Agrawal
Shreenabh Agrawal
Founder
Jaskaran Singh Walia
Jaskaran Singh Walia
Founder