Research Scientist

Research Scientist, Robotics 🤖

📍 Seattle, WA | Office-based

💰 $160,000 - $260,000 base + annual bonus

🩺 Medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), paid leave and a long-term incentive plan

Can a robot pick up an object it’s never seen before? Can a skill learned in simulation work on a physical robot? And what actually makes the difference: the model, the training data or the way you test it?

I’m looking for a Research Scientist to join an independent AI research institute in Seattle and investigate questions like these.

You’ll develop original methods for teaching robots new skills, design experiments at scale in simulation and test ideas on physical robots. The work spans manipulation, robot learning and foundation models, with the freedom to publish your findings and release models, datasets and benchmarks that other researchers can build on.

Who I’d like to speak with

• Researchers with depth in at least one of these areas: manipulation, imitation or reinforcement learning, simulation and sim-to-real transfer, planning and control, or robotics foundation models.
• People with PhD-level research depth and a strong publication record who can explain what they personally contributed and what their experiments showed.
• Scientists who write strong code and have worked with physical robots, deep learning frameworks, or both.

I’m keen to hear from final-year PhD researchers, postdocs and industry research scientists. If you’ve trained a robot policy and tested what happens when you change the objects, tasks or environment, I’d particularly like to hear about it.

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