Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Models

Highlights

• Founding role building foundation models for general-purpose robots.
• Own 0-to-1 research agenda spanning perception, reasoning and manipulation.
• Move ideas from large-scale experiments to real-world robot capabilities.

What they offer

• Meaningful equity sharing in long-term success
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• Hybrid working with core hours and hands-on lab access
• Learning and development budgets for training and conferences
• Comprehensive health, dental, parental leave and wellbeing benefits

Ideal candidate

A senior robotics researcher who thrives with 0-to-1 ownership and wants to push embodied intelligence into the real world, comfortable shaping an agenda in an unstructured, ambitious environment.

Requirements

• Deep experience in machine learning focused on vision-language models, video models, robot policies or foundation models
• Experience with scalable training including multi-node training and large datasets/models
• Strong research track record with publications in venues such as ICRA, CoRL, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML or ICLR
• Strong coding skills with modern machine learning frameworks
• Ability to design and drive an independent research agenda with engineering teams
• Experience translating research ideas into working systems or deployed capabilities