【R&D-012】Research Scientist (VLAs)

AIRoA is launching a groundbreaking initiative to collect one million hours of humanoid robot operation data and train the world’s most powerful Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. We are building a shared “robot data ecosystem” where datasets, trained models, and benchmarks are available to everyone. Researchers will be able to evaluate their models on standardized humanoid robots through our open evaluation platform.

Requirements

• MS degree with 3+ years of industry experience, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• At least one first-author publication in a top-tier conference such as CoRL, ICML, CVPR, NeurIPS, IROS, ICLR, ICCV, or ECCV.
• Experience with open-ended learning, reinforcement learning, and frontier methods for training LLMs/VLMs/VLAs such as RLHF and reward function design
• Experience working with simulators or real-world robots
• Knowledge of the latest advancements in large-scale machine learning research
• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on fundamental challenges in robotics and AI
• Access to state-of-the-art infrastructure: hundreds of humanoid robots, GPU clusters, high-fidelity simulators, and a global-scale evaluation pipeline
• Collaboration with leading experts across academia and industry
• Publish results that will shape the next decade of robotics