Research Scientist - Humanoid Robotics

The role

You will set and drive the research agenda for humanoid robotics with a focus on dexterous manipulation. You will conduct original research on world-action foundation models and reinforcement learning to deliver manipulation policies for humanoid robotic systems.

What you will do

• Set and drive the research agenda for humanoid robotics
• Conduct original research on world-action foundation models and reinforcement learning
• Deliver manipulation policies for humanoid robotic systems
• Serve as a founding senior researcher on the humanoid effort
• Publish at top-tier venues like CoRL, ICRA, and RSS
• Collaborate with Research Engineers and product teams to deploy work into real humanoid platforms and dexterous hands
• Partner with senior researchers on cross-cutting problems spanning autonomy and robotics

Required qualifications

• 1+ years of industry research experience, or a completed post-doc in a relevant field
• Strong research record in robotics, manipulation, robot learning, or closely related areas
• Publications in top-tier conferences or journals such as CoRL, RSS, ICRA, IROS
• PhD in machine learning, computer vision, robotics, or a closely related field
• Strong technical convictions and a clear point of view on where the field is going
• Technical and professional maturity to operate independently as a senior IC
• Passion for scalable, real-world robotics and physical AI

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience in humanoid robotics platforms, dexterous manipulation and multi-fingered hands
• VLA/WAM and post-training for robotics
• Large-scale RL in robotic simulation, and sim-to-real transfer
• Imitation learning from teleoperation or human demonstration data
• Prior Tech Lead or founding-team experience

About the company

Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company creating digital infrastructure for physical AI. It services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries.