Principal Roboticist, Robot Foundation Model

📋 Description

• Senior role building MEGA: general-purpose robots beyond self-driving.
• Own research agenda, strategy, and foundations for a new robotics program.
• Work across robot stack: hardware, software, deployment, data strategy.
• Collaborate with researchers, ML engineers, and hardware teams for real-world capabilities.
• Opportunity to publish and ship scalable robotics research and systems.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in robot manipulation and working with robot hardware.
• Experience leading robotics efforts.
• Strong programming in C++ and/or Python.
• Experience with robot software systems such as control, planning, ROS, or ROS2.
• Experience in Machine Learning welcome; training/deploying learned robot policies a plus.
• Track record of high-quality robotics/embodied AI work; publications valued.

🎁 Benefits

• Be part of a new, well-resourced initiative at the intersection of foundation models and robotics.
• Work on generalist robot models and systems that learn from real-world interaction.
• Operate at scale with real robots, data, and challenging problems.
• Influence the full stack from ML research to hardware, deployment, and evaluation.
• Join a research environment that supports innovation, publishing, and defining the future of