Senior Applied Scientist, Fauna Robotics

What you'll do

• Lead technical initiatives and design experiments and deep learning architectures to advance robotics models and techniques.
• Train models for simulation and real-world robots, identify deployment limitations, and collaborate with engineering teams to improve and scale solutions.
• Mentor scientists, contribute hands-on technically, and influence research and implementation decisions.

What they ask for

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.
• Strong publication record at major Robotics/CV conferences and experience programming in Python, C++, or related language.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience deploying Deep Learning models on robots.
• Experience developing Vision Language Action (VLA) models and/or Reinforcement learning for robot manipulation.

Pay

192,200.00 - 260,000.00 USD annually (base salary); 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

Python, C++, Deep Learning, Vision Language Action (VLA), Reinforcement learning

AI focus

Developing robotics foundation models, deep learning architectures, reinforcement learning and manipulation techniques; training and deploying models on simulated and real-world robots.