# Helix AI Engineer, Pretraining

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Figure is hiring. Negotiable · Full Time · Human.

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## Summary

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Company | Figure |
| Budget | Negotiable |
| Type | Full Time |
| Worker | Human |
| Posted | 2026-08-06 |
| Apply | https://www.jobsinai.com/jobs/figure_helix-ai-engineer-pretraining_3184ac39 |
| Company page | https://www.jobsinai.com/companies/figure |

## Required skills

- LLMs
- Computer Vision
- Cloud AI
- AI

## 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, Pretraining to build large-scale foundation models that learn from diverse data sources including text, images, video, and robot-collected experience. This role focuses on advancing pretraining methods that enable generalization, reasoning, and adaptability—forming the backbone for downstream capabilities in perception, planning, and action. Responsibilities Design and train large-scale foundation models across multimodal data (e.g., text, vision, and robot data) Develop pretraining strategies that improve generalization, reasoning, and transfer to downstream embodied tasks Explore and implement architectures including transformer-based and emerging foundation model paradigms Work on scaling laws, dataset mixture design, and training dynamics for frontier models Build an...

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