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Ai2Ai2Seattle, WA

Young Investigator, Robotics

Postdoctoral researcher on robotics team developing foundation models, manipulation skills, and sim-to-real transfer for competent robots. Requires recent PhD and publications in top robotics/ML venues; 50/50 split on collaborative and independent research.

160k – 160k/yr
On-siteOther

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Investigate scaling and generalization properties of foundation models for robotics.
  • Develop agents for robot manipulation, instruction following, and skill learning in simulation and real hardware.
  • Build scalable, GPU-accelerated simulation environments and sim-to-real transfer pipelines.
  • Contribute to open-source methods, datasets, benchmarks, and tools.
  • 50% collaborative work on Ai2/UW projects + 50% independent research.

Requirements

  • Within one year of completing PhD or already have PhD.
  • Strong foundation (PhD level) in robotics research areas: robot foundation models, manipulation/skill learning, simulation/sim-to-real.
  • Extensive work experience and peer-reviewed publications at top venues (RSS, CoRL, ICRA, NeurIPS, CVPR, etc.).

Compensation

  • $159,650

Duration: 1-3 years (postdoctoral program)

Skills

Robot Foundation ModelsRobot ManipulationSkill LearningSimulation EnvironmentsSim-To-Real TransferGpu AccelerationReinforcement LearningComputer VisionMachine LearningOpen-Source Tools

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