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You'll work across model architecture, large-scale training, reinforcement learning, simulation, and evaluation to build robotic behaviors that generalize across tasks, environments, and embodiments.\nWe value exceptional depth in one or more relevant areas; candidates are not expected to have experience across all of them.\nResponsibilities\nFormulate research hypotheses and design rigorous experiments informed by deployment needs.\n\nDevelop and scale foundation models for robotic perception and action.\n\nLeverage simulation and diverse datasets for pretraining, post-training, reinforcement learning, and evaluation.\n\nScale existing simulation platforms for data generation and reinforcement learning across heterogeneous scenes and tasks.\n\nAdvance generalization beyond demonstrated tasks and robust spatial understanding.\n\nImprove sim-to-real transfer and reliability under real-world deployment constraints.\n\nDevelop Auto-Engineering methods for scalable and robust deployment.\n\nImplement, evaluate, and clearly communicate research as reusable, production-quality work.\n\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nResearch or applied experience in machine learning, robotics, or computer vision.\n\nStrong Python programming skills and experience with PyTorch.\n\nExperience developing and evaluating machine-learning models or robotics algorithms.\n\nExperience with at least one robotics simulation platform.\n\nFamiliarity with inverse kinematics, dynamics, and robotic manipulation.\n\nDemonstrated research ability through publications, substantial research contributions, or equivalent industry work.\n\nMust obtain and maintain work authorization in the country of employment.\n\nDesired Qualifications\nMS or PhD in Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent industry research experience.\n\nFirst-author publications at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, CoRL, RSS, or ICRA.\n\nHands-on experience with Vision-Language-Action models, world models, world action models, diffusion or flow-matching policies, transformers, reinforcement learning, or imitation learning.\n\nExperience with large-scale pretraining, data-mixture design, post-training, or reinforcement learning.\n\nExperience scaling simulation platforms such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim or Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, or ManiSkill for learning and data generation.\n\nExperience with sim-to-real transfer and evaluation on real robotic systems.\n\nA track record of taking research from hypothesis through implementation and robust validation.\n\nAbout General Robotics\nGeneral Robotics is building the intelligence grid for physical AI - the platform that makes any robot, from robotic arms to humanoids, genuinely intelligent. 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