- Robot type
- Robot AI and Software
- Location
- USA
- Job type
- Business Operations
- Posted
- Jun 25, 2026
- Salary
- $150,000–$200,000 a year
Full-time
Research Assistant
Job description
We build embodied foundation models, starting with a focus on dexterity. This requires advancing the frontiers of data, models, and hardware, to enable robots to intelligently interact with the physical world.
The company embraces both large-scale AI and robotics as core to its DNA. Our team of researchers, roboticists, and company builders come from OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind, and other frontier labs—with a track record of shipping AI breakthroughs.
At Generalist, we are on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world and make it useful to everyone.
Job responsibilities
- Running structured experiments on robot platforms
- Setting up physical tasks, materials, fixtures, and benchmarks for robot evaluations
- Collecting high-quality robot data and tracking experimental conditions
- Measuring real-world success rates across tasks, robots, and model variants
- Designing evaluations with attention to controls, repeatability, statistical rigor, and sources of bias
- Analyzing results to help distinguish real model improvements from noise
- Synthesizing findings and communicating them clearly to ML researchers and engineers
- Preparing robots, sensors, workspaces, and materials for rollouts and evaluations