Forward Deployed Researcher (Robot Learning)

Requirements

• Experience training modern neural-network-based robotic policies through a thesis, university laboratory, internship, research project, or early professional role.
• Familiarity with imitation learning, reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, or related robot-learning methods.
• Strong Python and hands-on experience with PyTorch, JAX, or an equivalent framework.
• Experience running experiments on real robots or in a robotics simulator.
• Good understanding of machine learning fundamentals and experimental design.
• Evidence of strong technical work, such as a thesis, paper, research project, open-source contribution, or working robotic system.
• Comfortable moving between research code and physical hardware.
• Willingness to travel to deployment sites.

Nice to Have

• Experience with manipulation, dexterous control, teleoperation, or whole-body policies.
• Familiarity with Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, ManiSkill, or similar environments.
• Experience with diffusion policies, transformers, multimodal models, or vision-language-action systems.
• Publications or workshop papers in robotics, computer vision, or machine learning.
• Experience collecting or curating robot-training data.

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