# Young Investigator, Robotics

**Company:** [Ai2](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ai2)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $160k – $160k/yr
**Skills:** Robot Foundation Models, Robot Manipulation, Skill Learning, Simulation Environments, Sim-To-Real Transfer, Gpu Acceleration, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Open-Source Tools
**Posted:** 2026-04-28

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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)

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