DYNA Robotics
Research Scientist
$200K–$400K
Redwood City, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 22, 2025
- Experience
- 5+ years.
- Education
- PhD (preferred) or Master’s in CS/Robotics; no equivalent-experience alternative stated.
About the job
Develop and deploy embodied AI models that enable robots to perform complex manipulation tasks and generalize in real-world customer environments.
What you'll do
- Design robot-learning algorithms, including RL, Imitation Learning, and Diffusion, for manipulation tasks.
- Build multimodal foundation models and use generative video architectures for world-modeling and robot foresight.
- Own the research-to-production pipeline, including data curation, large-scale training, and physical-robot evaluation and deployment.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of AI and robotics research experience, including deploying deep-learning models on physical robots.
- Hands-on experience with VLA models, Video Generation, or large-scale transformer architectures.
- Mastery of Python and PyTorch (or JAX).
- Ability to write maintainable, production-ready research code that scales across GPU clusters.
Nice to have
- PhD (preferred) or Master’s in CS/Robotics with a significant publication record in top-tier conferences.
- Familiarity with simulation stacks like MuJoCo, Isaac, or Drake.
Pay
$200K – $400K (USD, base salary)
Tools
RL, Imitation Learning, Diffusion, VLMs/VLAs, Python, PyTorch, JAX, MuJoCo
AI focus
Embodied AI research, including robot learning, multimodal foundation models, generative video for world-modeling, and deployment on physical robots.
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