Research Scientist, Robotics Seattle, WA View job
Core
Develop and investigate core research problems in foundation models for robotics, contributing to open methods, datasets, benchmarks, and models.
Role type
Research Scientist (Robotics Foundation Models)
Builds
Open-source methods, datasets, benchmarks, and models for broadly competent robots
Domain
Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Vision
Deliverable
research
Required skills
robot manipulation, planning and control, RL and imitation learning, real world robot systems, simulation environments, sim2real, world models, foundation models, deep learning frameworks, software engineering
Preferred skills
large-scale multi-node training, training dynamics, efficiency, data curation, multimodal model debugging, post-training methods, open-source research libraries
Technologies
deep learning frameworks, large-scale simulation tools
Responsibilities
Develop and investigate core research problems in foundation models for robotics; Contribute to the development of completely open methods, data sets, benchmarks, and models; Experiment with large-scale simulation tools and robots in the real world; Lead projects and mentor interns and pre-doctoral candidates; Author and present scientific papers; Collaborate with researchers at other organizations including universities
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship