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Senior Research Scientist

USA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-25 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, implement, validate, and operate major Physical AI platform components, including scalable infrastructure for training and serving multimodal and robotics models.

Role type

Senior Research Scientist (Physical AI & Robotics Infrastructure)

Builds

Scalable infrastructure for training and serving multimodal and robotics models (vision-language-action, world models, robot policies)

Domain

Robotics, Physical AI, Machine Learning Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

software and systems engineering fundamentals, designing and operating production-scale distributed or data-intensive systems, robotic learning, AI training and inference infrastructure, robotics data and simulation systems

Preferred skills

imitation learning, reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, world models, policy evaluation, distributed training, inference engines, GPU kernels, collective communication, synthetic data generation, simulation, data curation, sim-to-real workflows

Technologies

Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Cosmos, vLLM-Omni, SGLang Omni, RLInf

Responsibilities

Own the design, implementation, validation, and operation of major Physical AI platform components; Develop scalable infrastructure for training and serving multimodal and robotics models; Translate research ideas into production-ready capabilities; Lead technical design for complex projects and drive production adoption; Mentor engineers and contribute to shared architecture and engineering standards

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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