# Predoctoral Young Investigator, Robotics

**Company:** [Ai2](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ai2)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $113k – $113k/yr
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** Robot Foundation Models, Robot Manipulation, Skill Learning, Simulation Environments, Sim-To-Real Transfer, Gpu Acceleration, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, LLMs, Reinforcement Learning
**Posted:** 2026-04-24

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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