Principle Roboticist, Robot Foundation Model

Highlights

• Join founding MEGA team building foundation models for general-purpose robots.
• Build intelligent agents that perceive, reason, move and manipulate the world.
• Run real-world robot experiments that directly inform model development.

What they offer

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity sharing in ownership and long-term success
• Relocation support where applicable
• Hybrid working with core hours and hands-on lab work
• Learning and development budgets for training and conferences
• Comprehensive health insurance including dental
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Retirement or pension where applicable
• Access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships and team socials

Ideal candidate

Hands-on roboticist energized by 0-to-1 ownership and ambiguity, comfortable debugging real robots and bridging research with pragmatic execution to advance embodied intelligence.

Requirements

• Experience in robot manipulation and working with robot hardware
• Experience leading robotics efforts
• Strong programming experience in C++ and/or Python
• Experience with robot software systems such as control, planning, ROS or ROS2
• Experience in machine learning, including training and deploying learned robot policies
• Track record of high-quality research or engineering work in robotics or embodied AI
• Publications in top-tier conferences such as ICRA, CoRL or IROS highly valued
• PhD preferred; Master's degree with equivalent experience also welcome
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience