Robotics Research Scientist

About the Role 

We’re looking for a Robotics Research Scientist who blends frontier research curiosity with engineering discipline. You’ll work at the core of our research efforts, training state-of-the-art locomotion algorithms, integrating sensor arrays, processing large amounts of multi-modal data from our numerous robots. Your research is meant to make an impact in the real world. 

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a highly interdisciplinary environment, understands how to explain their domain knowledge to an intelligent but uninformed audience. 

What You’ll Do

• Apply state-of-the-art research to real-life applications
• Invent solutions to novel challenges that arise from deploying robots outside a lab
• Design hardware requirements in conjunction with research problems

You Should Have

• Expertise in a domain related or transferable to robotics
• The willingness to get your hands dirty with the difficult work of deploying your research
• A curious mind and a passion for publishing good high impact research

Bonus Points For

• Experience or Education in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
• Experience with TorchScript, ONNX, or custom inference runtimes
• Contributions to PyTorch or open-source ML tooling
• Experience working on transformer models, diffusion models, or large-scale vision/NLP tasks
• Familiarity with the drawbacks and limitations of ROS/ROS2
• A history of making deep contributions across varied disciplines

Why Join Us

• Collaborate with a world-class research team on meaningful, high-impact projects
• Own and shape the core training code infrastructure used daily by the team
• Work on real models, real data, and real scale — not toy problems
• Help bridge the gap between research velocity and engineering quality
• Flexible work environment with a culture that values depth, clarity, and curiosity