Senior Machine Learning Engineer — Robotics

SKEYEBOTS | Bengaluru, India | Full time | Hybrid

About SKEYEBOTS

SKEYEBOTS builds AI-driven autonomous systems for unmanned platforms operating across aerial, ground, and maritime environments — where perception, control, and reasoning failures are not an option.

We are a well-funded, rapidly scaling deep-tech organisation with engineering operations across India.

The Role

We're hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build and ship the perception, control, and multimodal reasoning systems that let our robots operate reliably in the real world. You'll own models end to end — from data pipeline and training through on-robot deployment and evaluation — including our work bringing vision-language models (VLMs) and vision-language-action (VLA) approaches into the robotics stack.

As a senior member of the team, you'll mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance to 1–2 engineers working alongside you. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with controls, hardware, and systems engineers.





This is a hands-on role for someone who has already put ML on real robots and knows how messy the gap between a benchmark and a deployed system is.

What You'll Own
- Design, train, and deploy ML models for robot perception (object detection, segmentation, pose estimation, depth, or SLAM) and/or learning-based control (RL, imitation learning, model-based approaches)
- Adapt and fine-tune VLMs and VLA architectures for language-conditioned perception, grounding, and manipulation — and make them run within real robot latency and compute budgets
- Own the full lifecycle: data collection and labeling strategy, training infrastructure, evaluation harnesses, and on-robot deployment under latency and compute constraints
- Build evaluation pipelines that measure real-world performance, not just offline metrics — including sim-to-real transfer and failure-case analysis
- Optimise models for embedded/edge inference (quantisation, pruning

📌 Senior Machine Learning Engineer — Robotics (Bengaluru)
🏢 SKEYEBOTS
📍 Bengaluru