Early-career researcher on robotics team investigating foundation models for robot manipulation, skill learning, and sim-to-real transfer in scalable simulations. Prepares candidates for PhD programs through mentorship, publications, and open-source contributions. Requires bachelor’s/master’s in relevant field.
113k – 113k/yr
On-siteEntry levelOther
About the role
Responsibilities
Investigate scaling and generalization properties of foundation models for robotics and contribute to developing broadly competent robots.
Develop agents that manipulate objects, follow instructions, and acquire new skills across diverse tasks in simulation and on real robot hardware.
Build and leverage scalable, GPU-accelerated simulation environments for large-scale training and develop sim-to-real transfer pipelines.
Make substantial contributions to open-source methods, datasets, benchmarks, and tools for robotics research.
Requirements
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field with desire to enter PhD program in next 1-3 years, or currently enrolled in related PhD program.
Strong interest in language-model based AI, natural language processing, robotics, robot manipulation, large-scale training in simulation, sim-to-real transfer, robot foundation models, and skill learning.
Compensation
$113,300
Skills
Robot Foundation ModelsRobot ManipulationSkill LearningSimulation EnvironmentsSim-To-Real TransferGpu AccelerationRoboticsNatural Language ProcessingLLMsReinforcement Learning
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