About the Role
We are seeking a researcher who is fluent in current paradigms like VLAs and world models, and who has a vision for future advancements. Your research will directly set the company's roadmap, focusing on hypotheses that scale and generalize across diverse environments, tasks, and robots, tested rigorously against real-world performance.
Responsibilities
- Establish a long-term research roadmap with the research team.
- Manage research directions from hypothesis generation to deployment.
- Conduct architectural experimentation, pushing beyond current state-of-the-art.
- Contribute to the data roadmap, including expert demonstrations and reinforcement learning.
- Evaluate models by deploying them on robots and refining behavior based on real-world performance.
- Develop maintainable and scalable machine learning infrastructure and research code.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research and develop novel machine learning approaches.
- Deep expertise and intuition in AI and robotics research, with experience deploying deep learning models onto physical robots.
- Proficiency in state-of-the-art robot learning.
- Ability to rapidly design and execute experiments, interpret results, and iterate.
- Strong experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
- Expert proficiency in Python.
- Experience interfacing with complex infrastructure and debugging the full software stack.
Skills
- VLAs
- World models
- Large-scale post-training
- PyTorch
- JAX
- Python
- Supervised fine-tuning
- Reward modeling
- Alignment techniques
- Distributed training
- Cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS)
- Cluster management (Kubernetes, SLURM)
About the Company
- Founded to build home robots that transform everyday life by enabling people to do more and reclaim time.
- Believes robots, like any product, must ship to matter.
- Robots are already operating in real homes and businesses, enabling rapid improvement.
- Entering an exciting stage of growth with a growing team, strong customer demand, and capital for expansion.
