About the role

  • Research Scientist creating general-purpose robots through embodied machine learning at Toyota Research Institute. Collaborating with top academic labs to revolutionize robotics and AI technology.

Responsibilities

  • Work as part of a dynamic, closely-knit research team building useful robots and general-purpose robot foundation models.
  • Implement, extend, and create innovative methods for robot behavior learning from a mixture of interactive embodied data and online data sources.
  • Design and implement high-performance machine-learning pipelines and optimize data and learning stacks for scalability, efficiency, and performance.
  • Be a key member of the team and play a critical role in rapid progress measured by both the development of internal capabilities and high-impact external publication.
  • Collaborate with internal research scientists and our partner labs at top academic research universities including MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, Columbia, and Princeton to drive pioneering research at scale.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of relevant industry experience or a PhD.
  • Experience training large models and deploying them on embodied systems.
  • Strong software development skills in Python, familiarity with mixed C++/Python codebases, and a focus on clean, maintainable code.
  • Extensive experience with Machine Learning using a major framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow. Familiarity with data pipelines, model serving and optimization, cloud training, and dataset management.
  • Strong understanding of the state-of-the-art in robot learning, including vision-language-action (VLA) models, reinforcement learning, and/or computer vision.
  • Practical experience with robots and the system integration challenges inherent in conducting research and deploying onto physical hardware platforms.
  • An ability to adapt quickly and switch between modes of rapid prototyping and robust implementation as required.
  • A consistent track record of impact, either via first author research publications at top-tier machine learning or robotics conferences (RSS, NeuRIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, …), or via relevant contributions to successful industry initiatives.

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

Senior Research Scientist, Large Behavior Models

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$180,000 - $270,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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