Senior Robot Learning Engineer

Lightspeed·Northbrook, IL·Posted 29 October 2026

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ABOUT LIGHTSPEED LightSpeed Build Technologies is revolutionizing the construction industry through AI-powered robotics. Our flagship systems—BRUTE for automated wall panel manufacturing and DEX for on-site collaborative construction—are addressing the global housing crisis by delivering unprecedented speed, precision, and affordability in homebuilding. POSITION OVERVIEW As Senior Robot Learning Engineer, you will own how LightSpeed's robots learn and perform physical skills. You will build the data pipeline that captures how people do the work, the policies that learn from it, and the executor that runs every action on the robot, classical or learned, behind one interface. Our robots do contact-rich, high-variance work: taping seams, routing cable, finishing drywall, setting fixtures. Your systems decide whether a new trade takes days or weeks to teach, and whether it runs reliably once it does. WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON DATA AND TELEOPERATION - Define how we capture demonstrations: teleoperation rigs (leader arms, VR) and egocentric capture of people doing the work - Own the data pipeline: synchronized observations and actions, episode labelling, dataset versioning and…

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