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Robotics Engineer

Allen Institute for AI · Seattle, WA · Seattle

Research instituteonsite$129k–$193k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build sim-to-real pipelines to deploy learned policies on real robots.
  • Develop scalable simulation domains for robot foundation models.
  • Shape core capabilities pushing what robots can learn in the real world.

What they offer

  • Medical, dental and vision coverage
  • 401k plan with life and disability insurance
  • $125 per month for commuting or internet
  • $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing
  • Up to 20 vacation days plus sick days and holidays
  • Annual bonuses and long-term incentive plan

Ideal candidate

Hands-on robotics engineer who thrives bridging theory and system-building. You care about making end-to-end systems work under real-world constraints and collaborating on ambitious robot learning.

Requirements

  • Master's + 3 years experience or PhD in robotics or relevant field
  • Experience across full robotics stack from perception to control and execution
  • Fluency in Python with strong debugging instincts
  • Experience with low-level controllers and deploying learned policies on real hardware
  • Familiarity with GPU-accelerated simulation and sim-to-real pipelines
remote policy
On-site in Seattle

Lab profile

About Allen Institute for AI

Nonprofit AI research institute building open language, multimodal, robotics, and science models.

What they build

  • OLMo
  • Molmo
  • AllenNLP

Known for

  • Open language models
  • Multimodal AI
  • Natural language processing
  • Robotics

Key facts

  • Based in Seattle
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