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Predoctoral Young Investigator, Robotics

113k – 113kSeattle, WAOtherOnsiteEntry level
Summary

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.

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 processinglarge language modelsreinforcement learning
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