Applied Researcher

What you'll do

• Deploy and debug robot policies across perception, policy, control, and hardware; train and tune policies and curate data.
• Write production-quality code, and work with operators to set up tests, evaluations, and data-collection pipelines.
• Engage with partners and relay real-world failure modes to researchers and engineers.

What they ask for

• Hands-on experience deploying robots or autonomous systems in real-world environments.
• Strong engineering skills, including clean Python, interfacing with infrastructure, and debugging.
• Ability to debug the full stack from perception to control.
• Clear communication with researchers, operators, and occasionally partners.

Nice to have

• Founded or worked at an early-stage robotics or AV company; PhD in a relevant field.
• Intuition for policy training, neural network debugging, and data curation; experience with robot manipulation platforms.

Tools

Python

AI focus

Trains, tunes, and deploys learned policies for robots, improving real-world performance and translating research advances into deployable systems.