Research Scientist, Robotics
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Job Description
Ai2's Robotics team is hiring a research scientist to investigate foundation models for robotics and develop open methods, datasets, benchmarks, and models. The work combines large-scale simulation with real robots, spanning manipulation, planning and control, reinforcement or imitation learning, sim-to-real transfer, world models, and broadly competent robotic systems.
Requirements
- Strong foundation
- typically at PhD level
- in robot manipulation
- planning and control
- reinforcement or imitation learning
- real-world robot systems
- simulation and sim-to-real transfer
- or world and foundation models. Strong AI publication record and software-engineering experience are required.
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