Senior / Staff Robotics Research Scientist - Dexterous & Mobile Manipulation

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Research focused on advancing robotic manipulation systems by developing exciting new ideas and providing solutions to complex problems
• Collaborate on publications to be submitted at worldwide conferences
• Working with fellow researchers and engineers to develop prototypes
• Apply yours and others’ research to real world problems

Job requirements

• MS or PhD in a robotics-relevant field
• 5+ years of experience in research and development
• A strong theoretical and practical understanding of modern approaches for robotic manipulation, which might include imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and vision-language-action (VLA) models
• High proficiency with Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch).
• Experience collaborating in large and complex code bases
• Experience with modern robotics simulation environments designed for ML (e.g., Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, PyBullet).
• A track record of deploying onto physical robot hardware, especially high-degree-of-freedom manipulators or humanoids.
• Proven track record of publications in top-tier conferences and journals in Machine Learning, Robotics, or related fields