Research Scientist, Generalist Embodied Agent Research - PhD College Grad

Why consider this job opportunity

• Base salary range of $160,000 - $299,000 depending on level and experience
• Eligibility for equity and benefits
• Work with a highly collaborative and innovative research team
• Opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects in humanoid robotics and AI
• Join a company recognized as one of the most desirable employers in the tech industry
• Engage in work that has a significant impact on the future of autonomous technologies

• Design and implement novel AI algorithms and models for humanoid robots and embodied agents
• Develop large-scale AI training and inference methods for foundation models
• Optimize and deploy AI models in physical simulation and on robot hardware
• Collaborate with research and engineering teams to transfer research to products and services
• Conduct hands‑on training and experimentation with robot learning and AI systems

• Ph.D. in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent research experience
• Outstanding engineering skills in rapid prototyping and model training frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Jax, Tensor Flow)
• Proficiency in Python or C++, with CUDA or ROS knowledge being a plus
• Excellent knowledge and hands‑on experience in training LLMs, multimodal foundation models, or large generative models
• Experience in foundation and diffusion models, reinforcement learning, agent learning, and applied robotics

• Hands‑on training experience and publications in LLMs, large vision‑language models, or video generative models
• Deep understanding of robot kinematics, dynamics, and sensors
• Familiarity with physics simulation frameworks such as Mu Jo Co  and Isaac Sim
• Robot hardware design and hands‑on building experience
• Knowledge of control methods, including PID, model predictive control, and whole‑body control

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