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title: 'Member of Technical Staff (Robotics) at Reka'
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# Member of Technical Staff (Robotics) at Reka

- **Company:** Reka
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/reka/9cdfc4f4-9594-49eb-9eaa-08aff01aa22f

## Job description

We are an AI research lab building foundational intelligence for the physical world.

Our models are designed to solve complex real-world challenges, powering everything from intelligent robots to next-generation wearables and media.

We work at the intersection of world models, video generation, and robotics, building systems that represent complex environments, reason about objects and dynamics, and translate high-level AI intentions into smooth, efficient, safe, and responsive actions across a variety of robotic embodiments.

You will collaborate closely with ML researchers developing multimodal world models and generative systems, and with hardware teams and partners to ensure robotic platforms, sensing, and system dynamics behave optimally in real-world operation.

## What You’ll Do

- Build the Foundation: Collaborate with our world model team to build state-of-the-art training and simulation platform for robotics.
- Build the "World": Develop persistent 3D/4D scene representations that maintain temporal consistency.
- Drive Intelligence: Unlock advanced robotics planning and decision making through our in-house, cutting-edge world models.
- Sim2Real: Ensure sensing and system dynamics perform reliably in high-stakes, real-world operations, where models think, simulate, and act.
- Push Boundaries: Partner with top ML researchers to innovate on generative models and physical AGI.

## AREAS OF INTEREST

We are particularly excited about candidates working on topics such as:

- World models for embodied systems
- 3D / 4D generative models
- Robotics manipulation
- Embodied AI
- Multimodal AI

## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- Background in robotics, or computer vision
- Experience with 3D perception, scene representations, or world models
- Experience working with robotic systems, simulation, or real-world platforms
- Strong programming skills (Python, C++, or similar)
- Located in London or willing to relocate to London, UK

Ability to work across machine learning, perception, and robotics

## REKA'S MISSION

Reka's mission is to build useful multimodal artificial intelligence and use it to empower organisations and businesses. We are a globally distributed foundation model startup, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Embracing a remote-first approach, our team brings together top talent from around the world. Our founding team, along with many of our team members, has contributed to many of the breakthroughs in AI over the past decade.

WHY REKA?

- An Elite Team: Collaborate with top-tier engineers, researchers, operators from renowned organizations like Google DeepMind and Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and successful startups, driving innovation in cutting-edge AI technology.
- Massive Market Opportunity: Be part of a rapidly growing industry poised to transform multiple sectors globally, offering the chance to make a significant impact.
- Mission-Driven Environment: Work alongside a collaborative, mission-focused team dedicated to advancing AI for meaningful applications.
- Inclusive and Open Culture: Thrive in an open and inclusive work environment that values diverse perspectives and fosters creativity.
- Generous Benefits: Enjoy 5 weeks of paid leave to recharge, comprehensive healthcare benefits including vision and dental, and additional perks that support your well-being.
- Visa Support: We provide visa assistance for UK employees to ensure a smooth transition and support your career with us.

## About Reka

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Reka is an AI research and product company building foundational multimodal models and infrastructure for understanding and interacting with the physical world.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Dani Yogatama (CEO), Mikel Artetxe, Qi Liu

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Foundation Models, Multimodal AI, Enterprise AI Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B — enterprises, developers, and organizations needing multimodal AI models (vision, video, language) for deployment at scale.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To advance science and build generative AI models for the benefit of humanity, organizations, and enterprises; specifically, to build models and infrastructure for the physical AI era.

## Products & Services
- **Reka Core, Flash, Edge**: A family of multimodal language models available in three sizes, supporting comprehensive multimodal input (text, images, video, audio), with leading reasoning and coding capabilities. Deployable on-premise, via API, or in the cloud.
- **Infer (Inference Infrastructure)**: An inference engine and API for multimodal AI, built for speed, scale, and enterprise reliability.
- **Video Processing Infrastructure**: Scalable infrastructure to tag, reason over, search, and clip large volumes of video data, available via API, MCP, or the Reka app.
- **Claru (Data Infrastructure)**: Builds training data for frontier AI, including egocentric video, robotics trajectories, world-model footage, and expert human judgment at scale.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding: **$170M** across two rounds (Series A: $60M in June 2023; Series B: $110M in August 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: DST Global, Radical Ventures, Snowflake (strategic investor), NVIDIA (led Series B)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew ~10.7% YoY to 44 employees; actively hiring for 6 technical roles (ML, Robotics, GPU Performance, Applied AI); expanding globally with presence in 9 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Multimodal-native models**: Built from the ground up to handle text, images, video, and audio — not stitched together from separate systems.
- **Flexible deployment**: Models can run on-premise, in the cloud, or at the edge (e.g., Reka Edge), appealing to security-conscious enterprises.
- **World-model focus**: Unique emphasis on physical-world understanding (robotics trajectories, egocentric video, video processing) positions them for the next wave of embodied AI.
- **Founding team pedigree**: Core team from DeepMind, Google Brain, and FAIR, giving deep research credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Physical AI infrastructure**: Building the data, inference, and model stack for robotics, autonomous systems, and world-model applications.
- **Enterprise adoption**: Prioritizing on-premise deployment, security, and customization for large organizations.
- **Global, remote-first scaling**: Hiring top talent worldwide, with a focus on engineering and research roles.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Fully remote flexibility with a "work from anywhere" policy and budget to personalize your home workspace.
- **Strong benefits**: Full health/dental/vision, mental health support, 25 days PTO, family support, stock options, and "Reka Appreciation Days" (extra company-wide days off).
- **Global team**: 17 nationalities represented; regular international offsites (Japan, Bali, Las Vegas, etc.) and in-person hackathons for creative collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Described as a team of "curious builders, researchers, and engineers" who value open communication, speed, ownership, and excellence. Titles matter less than curiosity and shared ambition.
- **High-impact roles**: Active openings in ML, robotics, GPU performance, and applied AI — working on frontier research with real-world deployment.

## Sources
1. [reka.ai](https://reka.ai/)
2. [reka.ai/careers](https://reka.ai/careers)
3. [reka.ai/teams](https://reka.ai/teams)
4. [LinkedIn - Reka AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/reka-ai)
5. [reka.ai - Series A Announcement](https://reka.ai/news/announcing-our-60m-funding-to-build-generative-models-and-advance-ai-research)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/reka](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/reka)

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