Research Scientist, Robotics
About The Position
Research Scientists in the Ai2 Robotics Team will have the unique opportunity to develop and investigate core research problems in foundation models for robotics, and contribute to the development of completely open methods, data sets, benchmarks, and models. They will experiment with large-scale simulation tools and robots in the real world. Research Scientists will work on multiple exciting research projects in the above areas but can also contribute and engage in a variety of other activities critical to our research and mission. These include opportunities to lead projects, mentor interns and pre-doctoral candidates, author and present scientific papers, and collaborate with researchers at other organizations including universities. At Ai2, you will be working with world-class AI and robotics researchers and talented software engineers. You will perform team-based, ambitious research, with a mandate to strive for big breakthroughs, not just incremental progress, in an exciting and interactive workplace.
Requirements
- A strong foundation (typically PhD level) in one or more of the following areas: robot manipulation, planning and control, RL and imitation learning, real world robot systems, simulation environments and sim2real, and world models and foundation models.
- A strong publication record in AI-related areas. Example venues include CoRL, ICRA, RSS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, etc.
- Strong software engineering skills.
- Experience working with real robot systems and/or with deep learning frameworks.
Nice To Haves
- Contributions to research communities (e.g. workshop organization, tutorials) are a plus.
- Research experience in related areas like large-scale multi-node training, training dynamics, efficiency, data curation, and multimodal model debugging, post-training methods, among others.
- Contributions to open-source research libraries.
Responsibilities
- Develop and investigate core research problems in foundation models for robotics.
- Contribute to the development of open methods, data sets, benchmarks, and models.
- Experiment with large-scale simulation tools and robots in the real world.
- Lead projects.
- Mentor interns and pre-doctoral candidates.
- Author and present scientific papers.
- Collaborate with researchers at other organizations, including universities.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Basic life insurance
- Basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Employee assistance program
- Voluntary life insurance program
- Voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program
- Health savings account plan
- Healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan
- Health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans
- 401k plan
- $125 per month for commuting or internet expenses
- $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses
- Up to ten sick days per year
- Up to seven personal days per year
- Up to 20 vacation days per year
- Twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Annual bonuses
- Long-term incentive plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
