Head of Vision – Language – Action (VLA) Development – Manipulation

Head of Vision – Language – Action (VLA) Development – Manipulation

Location: London – 5 days in the office

Our Clients

They are the UK’s first AI and robotics company dedicated to building advanced, reliable, and commercially scalable humanoid robots. Their flagship platform, HMND-01, is a next-generation labour automation system designed to deliver efficient, adaptable performance across real-world environments, beginning with industrial applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy and execution of representation learning, behaviour cloning, and reinforcement learning programs.
• Drive large-scale post-training for multi-modal LLM / VLM / VLA systems, integrating vision, audio, proprioception, LiDAR, and point cloud data.
• Build pipelines to continuously collect, version, label, and evaluate simulation and tele-operation data.
• Partner with MLOps and platform teams to scale distributed tra...