AI Robotics Research Scientist

Nimble Robotics•San Francisco, CA

12d•$180,000 - $250,000•Onsite

About The Position

Nimble is looking for an AI Robotics Research Scientist to help us advance our robotics moonshot by designing, developing, training, and implementing robotic foundation models, Vision-Language-Action Models, general-purpose robotic AI models, and reinforcement learning algorithms controlling multi-agent robot fleets. You will play a critical role in working with our all-star cross-functional team to build models with immediate applications for the world’s biggest robotics opportunity.

Requirements

P.h.D in Robotics or Computer Science
Experience training deep learning models for robotic manipulation or mobility
Experience working with real robotic hardware
Experience training models in simulation and developing simulation environments
Experience collecting custom datasets
Experience training on open-source datasets
Strong track record of publishing papers and/or deploying real-world applications
Experience with system architecture, design and development
Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed
Must be able to work in San Francisco

Responsibilities

Develop and train diffusion policies, VLMs, multi-agent deep RL policies and more
Develop data collection pipelines
Design data annotation and labeling
Support implementation of models into production systems