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Principal Research Scientist, Robotics

Mountain View, CA💼 Full-time💰 $242,500–$242,500🗓 2026-07-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Conduct state-of-the-art research on long-horizon robot autonomy, including task-and-motion planning, agentic robotics, vision language models, and multimodal data fusion to develop intelligent robotic systems.

Role type

Principal Research Scientist (Robotics & AI)

Builds

Research prototypes and technology demonstrators on robotic platforms

Domain

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models | research

Required skills

Task-and-motion planning, Agentic robotics, Vision language models, Open-world 3D perception, World models, Locomanipulation, Multimodal data fusion, Robotics fundamentals, Machine learning, Computer vision, ML model deployment

Preferred skills

Patenting, Scientific publication, Cross-functional leadership, University/startup collaboration

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, C++, ROS, CUDA

Responsibilities

Lead a team of researchers and engineers to design and implement research prototypes; Establish cooperative projects with universities and startups; Generate patents and scientific research papers for top-tier publication venues

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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