Research scientist (Robotics, AI)

Company Description

We are an early-stage robotics startup working on building multi-purpose mobile robots that can do complex manipulation tasks. We are looking for a creative, skilled, and motivated research scientists to join our founding team in advancing robot manipulation capabilities. We are looking for people with proven expertise in machine learning and/or robotics. You will collaborate with a team of talented researchers and engineers, and drive ongoing innovation and technological advancements within the company. This is a full-time on-site role in Santa Clara, CA.

Responsibilities

- Develop new algorithms and methods for training AI models for enhancing the robot dexterity.

- Conduct cutting edge research across multiple disciplines (Robotics, RL/IL, control, perception, LLM, VLM, etc.).

- Work with large-scale ML systems and large-scale model training/fine-tuning.

- Design and implement state-of-the-art learning-based manipulation/navigation/control algorithms on real robots.

- Work with other teams to develop a diverse set of robust manipulation skills for robots.

Qualifications

- Ph.D. degree in Robotics, Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, etc., or equivalent research experience.

- Passionate about working with robots and building robot products.

- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

- At least 3 years of experience conducting independent research.

- Deep understanding of the SOTA robot learning techniques (reinforcement learning, imitation learning, etc.)

- A track record of research excellence with your work published in top conferences and journals such as Science Robotics, IJRR, RSS, CoRL, ICRA, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, etc.

- Proficient with Python.

- Proficient with deep learning libraries such as PyTorch/TensorFlow/Jax.

- Experience with real robot experiments.

- Experienced with robot simulators such as Isaac Gym/ Isaac Sim/ SAPIEN/ MuJoCo/Drake, etc.