What the job involves

• As a researcher in robotics/AI, you will have the opportunity to join our R&D team working on novel robotics capabilities that have impact in real world applications
• You will work alongside a team of researchers and engineers developing novel machine learning, reinforcement learning, and foundation models for AI-enabled robotics capabilities in the areas of robot manipulation, robot perception, and robot motion planning
• With the broader engineering team and industrial partners, your work will bring promising prototypes to real world, practical, applications
• Our team works closely with researchers at Google DeepMind Robotics, Universities, and other research labs to bring solutions to the real world
• You should be excited to work with new technologies as you discover creative solutions to new meaningful problems applying AI in robotics
• Develop new motion planning approaches for single and multi-robot planning, starting from existing prototypes
• Exploit advances in machine learning (e.g,. graph nets, deep-learning, transformer models, etc.) for developing novel data-driven motion planning systems
• Implement state of the art algorithms and libraries in Python, C++, and Jax
• Bring problems from industrial partners to functional new solutions with very high reliability and performance
• Distill recent robotics/ML research publications for target problems and implement promising solutions

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Employee assistance programs focused on mental health
• Workplace accommodations for physical or mental health concerns
• Access to mental health apps
• Competitive compensation package that includes base salary, an annual performance bonus target, and equity
• 401(k) and regional retirement plans
• Student loan reimbursement
• Paid time off, including vacation, bereavement, jury duty, sick leave, parental leave, disability, and holidays
• Hybrid work model that balances in-person collaboration and productivity with individual flexibility
• Parental leave and baby bonding leave
• Fertility and growing family support
• Back-up childcare
• Educational reimbursement
• Donation matching and time off to volunteer