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We're scaling simple methods across video games, real-world video, and our own fleet of affordable, durable robots.\nWe're looking for research scientists who want to scale simple methods across the largest datasets available.\nYou might be a good fit if you:\nHave experience with one or more of:\nLarge-scale pre-training (video, multimodal, image, or language)\n\nSelf-supervised, goal-conditioned, or unsupervised RL\n\nRobotics models, especially those trained on large-scale data\n\nVideo generation or other large-scale sequence modeling over high-dimensional observations (e.g. pixels)\n\nHave trained models on large GPU clusters and are comfortable working with Kubernetes\n\nBelieve simple methods that scale beat complicated ones that don't, and reach for the simplest thing that could work\n\nStrive to find simple, expressive metrics and measure them accurately\n\nValue scientific integrity and seek to understand the true effect of different interventions\n\nNice to have:\nExperience with JAX\n\nInterest in problems adjacent to the critical path - new modalities, alternatives to text for reasoning, pixel-space modeling, or automating research itself\n\nA strong background in proof-based mathematics, including topics such as:\nMeasure-theoretic probability\n\nStochastic processes\n\nOptimization theory\n\nWe care much more about what you can do than any specific credential. 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