Research Scientist, Robotics

About the role

Persons in these roles are expected to work from our offices in Seattle. On-site requirements vary based on position and team.

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.
• Work on multiple exciting research projects in areas like robot manipulation, planning and control, RL and imitation learning, real world robot systems, simulation environments and sim-to-real transfer, robot foundation models, and skill learning.
• Lead projects, mentor interns and pre-doctoral candidates, author and present scientific papers, and collaborate with researchers at other organizations including universities.
• Perform team-based, ambitious research, striving for big breakthroughs, not just incremental progress, in an exciting and interactive workplace.

Requirements

• A strong foundation (typically PhD level) in one or more of the following areas: robot manipulation, planning and control, RL and imitation learning, real world robot systems, simulation environments and sim2real, and world models and foundation models.
• A strong publication record in AI-related areas. Example venues include CoRL, ICRA, RSS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, etc.
• Contributions to research communities (e.g. workshop organization, tutorials) are a plus.
• Strong software engineering skills.
• Experience working with real robot systems and/or with deep learning frameworks.

Qualifications

• Research experience in related areas like large-scale multi-node training, training dynamics, efficiency, data curation, and multimodal model debugging, post-training methods, among others.
• Contributions to open-source research libraries.

Skills

• Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand.
• The ability to observe details at close range.
• The ability to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.
• The ability to exchange accurate information in various situations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
• Voluntary life insurance program, accidental death and dismemberment program, health savings account plan, healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• Company's 401k plan.
• $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Annual bonuses and participation in the long-term incentive plan.

Pay

Base salary range is $167,030 - $260,570, with generous bonus plans.

Schedule

Flexible schedule to accommodate research needs.