Research Scientist, Robotics

The role

Research Scientists will develop and investigate core research problems in foundation models for robotics. They will experiment with large-scale simulation tools and robots in the real world.

What you will do

• 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
• Work on multiple research projects
• Lead projects
• Mentor interns and pre-doctoral candidates
• Author and present scientific papers
• Collaborate with researchers at other organizations

Required qualifications

• PhD level in one or more of the following: robot manipulation, planning and control, RL and imitation learning, real world robot systems, simulation environments and sim2real, and world models and fou
• Strong publication record in AI-related areas
• Strong software engineering skills
• Experience working with real robot systems and/or with deep learning frameworks
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time
• Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand
• Ability to observe details at close range
• Can work under deadlines

Nice to have

• Contributions to research communities (e.g. workshop organization, tutorials)
• Research experience in related areas like large-scale multi-node training, training dynamics, efficiency, data curation, and multimodal model debugging, post-training methods
• Contributions to open-source research libraries

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and an 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 to assist with 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

About the company

Ai2 is a Seattle based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Its mission is building breakthrough AI to solve the world’s biggest problems.