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Already deployed with customers across multiple industries, our robots do commercial-grade work in the physical world. Our team comes from Google DeepMind, Meta, and Cruise, and we're backed by CRV, First Round, and other leading investors.\nThe Role\nAs a Research Scientist on the AI Research team, you will own the end-to-end loop of Embodied AI. You will leverage our massive, \"in-the-wild\" multimodal datasets to develop models that don’t just move - they generalize, self-improve, and redefine what is possible in unstructured human environments.\nWhat You’ll Do\nAdvance the Frontier: Design and implement state-of-the-art robot learning algorithms (RL, Imitation Learning, Diffusion) for complex, high-DOF manipulation tasks.\n\nVLA & Video Generation: Architect and scale multi-modal foundation models (VLMs/VLAs) and leverage generative video architectures to enhance world-modeling and robot foresight.\n\nEnd-to-End Ownership: Own the full research-to-production pipeline: from task definition and data curation to large-scale training and real-time deployment on physical hardware.\n\nPhysical-World Evaluation: Move beyond the benchmark. You will evaluate and iterate on models using our expanding robot fleet, ensuring commercial-grade performance in dynamic customer environments.\n\nCollaborative Leadership: Work at the intersection of AI, Hardware, and Teleop teams to enhance the \"Intelligence-per-Watt\" of our robotic systems.\n\nWhat You’ll Bring\nResearch Excellence: A PhD (preferred) or Master’s in CS/Robotics with a significant publication record in top-tier conferences (RSS, CoRL, ICRA, NeurIPS, CVPR, or ICLR).\n\n5+ Years of Mastery: Deep experience in AI and robotics research, specifically in deploying deep learning models onto physical robots (not just simulation).\n\nGenerative AI Expertise: Hands-on experience with Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, Video Generation, or large-scale transformer architectures.\n\nTechnical Stack: Mastery of Python and PyTorch (or JAX). 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