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ML Research Scientist, Robot Learning

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-20 → 2026-09-25

Core

Conduct independent research to define the long-term roadmap for deploying deep learning models onto physical robots in real homes and businesses.

Role type

Senior IC ML Research Scientist (Robot Learning)

Builds

Novel machine learning approaches and robot learning systems for home and business automation

Domain

Robotics + Deep Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Independent research, deep learning intuition, robot learning deployment, hypothesis formulation, rapid experimentation, Python, PyTorch or JAX

Preferred skills

Large-scale post-training, distributed training, cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), cluster management (Kubernetes, SLURM)

Technologies

PyTorch, JAX, Python, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, SLURM

Responsibilities

Chart research direction and establish long-term roadmaps; Own research directions end-to-end from hypothesis to deployment; Perform architectural experimentation on WAMs and VLAs; Architect data roadmaps for expert demonstrations and reinforcement learning; Evaluate deployed models using real-world performance metrics; Build maintainable ML infrastructure and research code

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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