Applied Robotics Engineer, Medal X General Intuition
$180-300k
Offers equity
Social video platform for gaming
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Social video platform for gaming
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-300k
Offers equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect people by creating memories while they are physically apart!
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience deploying AI or robotics systems from prototype to production, spanning simulation, model development, and real-world deployment
- You have taken a model from a training checkpoint to running on real hardware and owned it end to end, including the failures
- You have debugged a model that was quietly wrong rather than obviously broken, found the root cause, and fixed the system rather than the symptom
- Strong Python and PyTorch, and you drop into C++ when performance requires it. You've done inference optimization on constrained hardware: quantization, distillation, TensorRT or ONNX export, control frequency
- Depth in at least one of the following and interest in the others: policy learning and control (RL, imitation learning); world models and simulation (Unity, Unreal, Isaac); perception and inverse dynamics models (sensor fusion, learning from demonstration)
- Experience across the hardware-software boundary: sensors, robotics middleware, edge compute, real-time constraints, and unreliable networks
- You're rigorous about evaluation, and you know what a benchmark number does and doesn't tell you
- Comfortable with a partner's engineers and their leadership in the same room, explaining what a model will and won't do without overselling it
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Applied Robotics Engineer to bridge our research with the realities of deploying AI systems in the physical world
- Our models are trained on real human decisions in simulated environments, and your job is to make them work on hardware in the real world, under constraints such as limited compute, power, noisy sensors, and unpredictable environments. You will take our models and focus on post-training, evaluation, system integration, and deployment
- You will work directly with partners to understand their legacy control systems, sensor pipelines, latency constraints, and edge compute limits. This position requires both office and field work, with time working closely with customers in various locations
- You'll also close the loop back to research. When a policy fails on hardware you'll find out why, whether it's sensor calibration, actuator dynamics the simulator didn't capture, control-loop timing, coordinate conventions, or a model leaning on one modality and ignoring another
- This is an in-person role based in our New York City HQ
Our take
Video games have become highly social experiences due to multiplayer gaming, eSports and social media, spawning a huge market for audiences who enjoy watching gaming-related video content. Gamers commonly stream games and edit the footage to produce memes and engage with friends, but this requires many software tools and a separate platform on which to share experiences.
Medal provides a social platform for gaming video clips. It allows users to record and edit footage, make gaming memes, and share content with friends from one place. While the company competes with platform giants like Twitch, it stands out by being specifically designed for gaming content. It also collects in-game data to mitigate cheating and cyberbullying, and integrates directly into any Windows or Android game.
In 2025, Medal spun out "General Intuition", and has since been hiring to both its own and the new company's team. General Intuition's mission is to build a new class of models that can perceive, predict and act in both virtual and physical environments. It is leveraging Medal's vast datasets to this end, reducing the limitations on machine intelligence by training AI on interaction and exploration rather than just written words.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$13m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$45m
SERIES C
Total funding: $85.6m
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Additional info
- General Intuition is the frontier lab for acting in space and time, spun out of Medal in 2025. Find out more at www.generalintuition.com
Leadership
Iggy Harmsen
(Co-Founder & Product)Former COO/CCO/Finance for the company. Worked in CS and Marketing for Soulsplit from 2012 to 2015.
Ken Colton
(CEO)Joined the company as Lead Software Engineer in 2021, becoming CTO then President then CEO. Previously Lead Software Engineer at Gif Your Game, Technical Lead at Grubhub and CTO at Material World. Co-founded and was Front-End Lead at Twubs.
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