ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Syncere is a startup based in San Francisco, CA building domestic robots that feel at home, in your home. We believe the best technology disappears into the background—so we’re designing intelligent furniture that blends into daily life while helping with everyday tasks.
Our first product, Lume, is a pair of robotic lamps that transform into folding arms when needed. In 24 hours post-launch, we hit 4M views, and locked in ~$2M in revenue.
Our team combines strong research backgrounds with real-world engineering experience from Stanford, U of Toronto, Tesla, Figure, AMD, and more.
Learn more at syncereai.com or follow us on Twitter @syncereAI.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We’re looking for a Research Scientist to architect and deploy the machine learning models behind our laundry-folding robot. You’ll own the full autonomy stack: from training manipulation models (imitation learning, RL, VLA) to deploying them on real robots in the home. You’ll also extend cutting-edge research, refine our data pipelines, and collaborate closely with engineering to bring reliable, in-home robotics to life.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Train, deploy, and maintain laundry folding models on physical systems
• Build autonomy for manipulation tasks using imitation learning, RL, and VLA models
• Develop our teleoperation/data collection stack and simulation pipelines
• Reproduce and extend cutting-edge robotics research
• Test, debug, and iterate on real robots in our San Francisco lab
• Collaborate closely with our engineering team