Hybrid Robotics Machine Learning Research Scientist – Large Behavior Models

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About the role

  • Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute improving quality of human life through general-purpose robotics. Developing machine learning models and collaborating on cutting-edge research and technology.

Responsibilities

  • Create general-purpose robots capable of accomplishing a wide variety of dexterous tasks.
  • Build general-purpose machine learning foundation models for dexterous robot manipulation.
  • Utilize generative AI techniques to produce robot action from sensor data and human requests.
  • Create a large curriculum of embodied robot demonstration data and combine it with various data types.
  • Collaborate in code infrastructure and work with both simulated and real robots.
  • Participate in publishing work to peer-reviewed venues and open-sourcing code.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with using machine learning for learned control, including RL, offline RL or behavior cloning, for manipulation.
  • Strong software development skills in Python.
  • A “make it happen” demeanour and comfort with fast prototyping.
  • A passion for robotics and doing research grounded in important fundamental problems.
  • A track record of relevant publications in top international conferences (RSS, NeuRIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, …)
  • Bonus Qualifications - Hardware experience.
  • A track record of relevant open-source software contributions.
  • Experience working with large-scale datasets and multi-node training

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) eligibility
  • Paid time off benefits (including vacation, sick time, and parental leave)
  • Annual cash bonus structure

Job title

Robotics Machine Learning Research Scientist – Large Behavior Models

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$176,000 - $264,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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