Skild AI AI Jobs & Careers

Skild AI is building the world's first general-purpose foundation model for robotics, a universal brain capable of controlling any robot for any task without requiring extensive retraining. Founded in 2023 by Carnegie Mellon researchers Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, the Pittsburgh-based company has developed the Skild Brain, an omni-bodied AI system that can operate quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms, and mobile manipulators without prior knowledge of their exact body form. The platform learns from internet-scale human video data and physics-based simulations. Skild AI's breakthrough capability is In-Context Learning, which enables robots to adapt to new environments or mechanical failures in real time without retraining. The company is deploying its technology across security and facility inspection, last-mile delivery, warehousing, manufacturing, data centers, and construction. In January 2026, Skild raised a $1.4 billion Series C round led by SoftBank and NVIDIA at a valuation exceeding $14 billion, bringing total funding past $2.1 billion across three rounds in just eighteen months. Skild AI's mission is to create a scalable, general-purpose intelligence layer for the physical world. For robotics and AI researchers, Skild represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to work at the frontier of embodied AI, building foundation models that could do for robotics what large language models have done for text. The company's extraordinary funding trajectory and deep academic roots in CMU's Robotics Institute make it one of the most compelling employers in the physical AI space.