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Founded in 2024 by ETH Zurich researchers, mimic pioneered Video-Action Models for robotics while also developing in-house dexterous hand hardware. Our growing team brings together world-class researchers working across our offices in Zurich and San Francisco.\nAs an AI Research Scientist (Robot Learning) you will drive frontier AI model development and data flywheel project management for dexterous robotic manipulation. You will shape all aspects of the development of end-to-end AI models for robotics, from large scale multi-task pre-training to specialized fine-tuning and post-training. You will also be responsible for the implementation and management of the data flywheel process, supervising and organizing task specification, data collection, model training and model evaluation in the real world. As an early employee, you will immediately co-lead AI engineering and science in close contact with the founders and early team.\nResponsibilities\nDrive research and implementation for large scale, multi-task foundation AI models for robotics, quickly iterate over architecture design and parameters\nOversee model specialization for end use cases with fine-tuning and other post-training techniques\nDrive the implementation and management of the data flywheel process, from data specification, to data collection, model training and real world evals\nWrite clean, maintainable python code using deep learning frameworks\nWork closely with the Robotics and Hardware teams to ensure efficient and stable deployment on real world robots\nRequirements\nPhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Robotics or related field, or equivalent PhD-level experience in industry\n3+ years of experience training generative models\n4+ years of experience with developing and maintaining Python code\nStrong empirical research abilities and intuitions\nProject management / supervision experience\nFluent English speaker\nNice to have\nPublished deep learning and/or robot learning research in leading conferences (NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, ICLR, etc.)\nExperience in training large scale foundation models with distributed multi-GPU setups\nRobotics and ROS2 experience\nExperience with RL fine-tuning of generative models\nExperience in open source software development\nCompensation & Benefits\nWe offer a total compensation package including a competitive yearly base salary and a strong stock option package to make you part of our shared success.\nYou will work with the founders from day one, shaping the company and participating in its success from its early stages.\nSurprise team trips, free gym and sports subscription, joint breakfasts and dinners and other exciting team activities.\nYou will have the opportunity to shape a robotics & AI company from the ground up. In flat hierarchies you will work directly with the founders and some of the best talents in the robotics space. At mimic, you are accepted for who you are. As part of our ongoing journey towards creating a diverse and inclusive environment we encourage everyone to apply and we are looking forward to you bringing along your knowledge, personal experiences, and fresh perspectives. 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