# Robotic Trainer Technician (VLA / Robot Learning)

> Sorting Robotics · Van Nuys, United States · Part-time · Posted 2026-06-22

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

We are a Van Nuys robotics company training Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models to run on real hardware. We are looking for a hands-on Robotic Trainer Technician to help us collect data, teleoperate our robots, and stand up the training and evaluation loop that turns demonstrations into working manipulation policies. This is a practical, in-the-lab role: you will spend real hours driving the robot and making the data pipeline reproducible, not just reading papers.

What you'll do:

\- Teleoperate and remote-operate our robots to collect demonstration data, with consistent, focused execution over several hours per day

\- Train and iterate on VLA policies for manipulation tasks

\- Stand up reproducible training and evaluation infrastructure (data capture, logging, eval runs)

\- Run repeated trials, label outcomes, and feed results back into the next training iteration

What we're looking for:

\- Hands-on experience with ML engineering or research (training and evaluating models, not just using them)

\- Comfort with real-hardware robotics and repetitive, precise teleoperation

\- Available onsite in Van Nuys

\- Reliable, self-directed, and able to keep execution consistent over long sessions

Nice to have:

\- Direct experience with VLA models, imitation learning, behavior cloning, or diffusion policies

\- Familiarity with ROS, MuJoCo / Isaac Sim, or similar

\- A portfolio or examples of real-robot work

Logistics:

Compensation is $20/hr. Hours are variable to start and will ramp up over time as the program scales. This is an onsite role in Van Nuys.

## Apply

[Apply at Sorting Robotics](https://apply.workable.com/sorting-robotics/j/9F117C0BDB/apply)

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