Research Scientist, Robotics

As a Research Scientist on our team, you'll have the unique opportunity to develop and investigate core research problems in foundation models and skills for robotics, contribute to the development of completely open data sets, benchmarks, and models, and experiment with robots in the real world. We are looking for applicants interested in robotics, with a focus on core techniques in robot manipulation, large scale training in simulated environments, vision-language-action models, and skill learning.

Requirements

• A strong foundation (typically PhD level) in one or more of the following areas: robot manipulation, planning and motion generation, RL and imitation learning, real world robot systems, simulation environments and sim2real, vision-language-action models.
• A strong publication record in AI-related areas. Example venues include ICRA, RSS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, etc.
• Strong software engineering skills. Experience working with real robot systems and/or with deep learning frameworks.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
• Voluntary life insurance program, voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program, health savings account plan, healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• Company’s 401k plan.
• $125 per month for commuting or internet expenses and $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Ten sick days per year, seven personal days per year, twenty vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Annual bonuses and participation in the long-term incentive plan.