Research Scientist, Robotics

We are looking for a Research Scientist to join our Robotics team in Seattle. As a Research Scientist, you will develop and investigate core research problems in foundation models and skills for robotics, contribute to the development of completely open data sets, benchmarks, and models, and experiment with robots in the real world. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in one or more areas such as robot manipulation, planning and motion generation, RL and imitation learning, real world robot systems, simulation environments and sim2real, vision-language-action models.

Requirements

• Strong foundation (typically PhD level) in one or more of the following areas: robot manipulation, planning and motion generation, RL and imitation learning, real world robot systems, simulation environments and sim2real, vision-language-action models.
• Strong publication record in AI-related areas. Example venues include ICRA, RSS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, etc.
• Strong software engineering skills. Experience working with real robot systems and/or with deep learning frameworks.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
• Voluntary life insurance program, voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program, health savings account plan, healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• 401k plan.
• Commuting and internet expenses assistance ($125 per month), fitness and wellbeing expenses assistance ($200 per month), up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Annual bonuses and participation in the long-term incentive plan.