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Helix AI Engineer, Video Pretraining
Figure AI INC · 🇺🇸 San Jose, CA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 22 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Figure AI INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “AI TRAINING INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER” (Software Developers) in CA: $200k–$227k, median $225k. Most were filed at wage level II (67%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 22 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets. Figure is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Our Helix team is responsible for developing the core AI systems that power humanoid autonomy. We are looking for a Helix AI Engineer, Video Pretraining to lead the development of large-scale video foundation models trained on diverse real-world and robot-collected data. This role focuses on pretraining models that learn from raw video—capturing motion, interaction, and temporal structure—to enable downstream capabilities in perception, prediction, and embodied reasoning. Responsibilities: • Design and train large-scale video foundation models on diverse datasets spanning internet-scale video and robot-collected data. • Develop pretraining strategies that capture temporal dynamics, motion, and object interaction from raw video sequences. • Build models that learn transferable representations for downstream tasks such as perception, tracking, prediction, and control. • Explore architectures for video understanding and generation, including transformer-based and diffusion-based approaches. • Implement efficient data pipelines and training strategies for high-throughput video ingestion and large-scale distributed training. • Optimize model performance across compute, memory, and training efficiency constraints. • Collaborate closely with generative modeling, agent, and robot learning teams to integrate pretrained models into the autonomy stack. • Design evaluation frameworks and benchmarks to measure temporal understanding, prediction quality, and generalization. Requirements: • Experience training large-scale models on video data or other high-dimensional sequential modalities. • Strong understanding of modern deep learning architectures for video, vision, or multimodal systems. • Experience with large-scale pretraining, including dataset curation, training dynamics, and scaling laws. • Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch. • Experience working with distributed training systems and large GPU clusters. • Strong experimental rigor and ability to iterate quickly on model design and training strategies. • Solid software engineering skills and ability to build scalable, reliable systems. • Ability to operate independently and drive ambiguous, high-impact research directions. Bonus Qualifications: • Experience working on frontier video models or multimodal foundation models. • Background in video diffusion, autoregressive video modeling, or world models. • Experience at leading AI labs such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Google, ByteDance, Midjourney, or Adobe. • Experience with large-scale dataset construction and filtering for video pretraining. • Familiarity with robotics, embodied AI, or learning from egocentric / first-person video. • Publication record in machine learning, computer vision, or multimodal AI. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $200,000 to $400,000 per year. The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.