Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Large Behavioral Models

At Toyota Research Institute (TRI), we're on a mission to improve the quality of human life. We're developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience. To lead this ground-breaking shift in mobility, we've built an extraordinary team in Energy & Materials, Human-Centered AI, Human Interactive Driving, and Robotics. The Mission: Make general-purpose robots a reality. The Challenge: We envision a future where robots assist with household chores and cooking, aid older individuals in maintaining their independence, and enable people to spend more time on the activities they enjoy most. To achieve this, robots need to be able to operate successfully in convoluted, unstructured environments. Our mission is to answer the question 'What will it take to create truly general-purpose robots that can accomplish a wide variety of tasks in settings like human homes with minimal human supervision?'. We believe that the answer lies in cultivating large-scale datasets of physical interaction from a variety of sources and building on the latest advances in machine learning to learn general-purpose robot behaviors from this data. The Team: Our goal is to redefine the field of robotic manipulation, enabling long-horizon dexterous behaviors to be efficiently educated, learned, and improved over time in diverse, real-world environments. We have a deep multi-functional expertise across simulation, perception, controls, and machine learning, and we measure our success in terms of fundamental capabilities development, as well as research impact via open-source software and publications. Our north star is a fundamental technological advancement in building robots that can flexibly perform a wide variety of tasks in diverse environments with minimal human supervision. Join us and let's make general-purpose robots a reality. We operate a fleet of robots, and robot-embodied teachings and deployment are key parts of our strategy.