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Research Scientist - Robot Learning (VLA / WAM)

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-20 → 2026-09-26

Core

Train end-to-end vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action models (WAM) to enable robots to act in physically-grounded 3D environments.

Role type

Senior hands-on research scientist (robot learning / embodied AI)

Builds

Robot policies that close the sim-to-real gap for manipulation and interaction

Domain

Robotics, Generative AI, Computer Vision, Simulation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Robot policy design (VLA, WAM, diffusion), Imitation learning, RL fine-tuning, VLM adaptation for control, Action representation design, Distributed training (FSDP), Python, PyTorch

Preferred skills

Domain randomization, System identification, Calibration, Tokenization, Chunking, Diffusion, Flow-matching, Supervised fine-tuning

Technologies

PyTorch, FSDP, VLM backbones, Diffusion models, Flow-matching

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end training pipelines from data to robot deployment; Set technical direction for embodied research; Close sim-to-real gap via domain randomization and calibration; Adapt VLM backbones for control; Curate heterogeneous robot datasets; Design action representation and decoding; Run post-training (SFT and RL)

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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