Hybrid Robotics Machine Learning Research Scientist – Large Behavior Models

at Tri-global Solutions Group Inc.

• Job title: Robotics Machine Learning Research Scientist – Large Behavior Models
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $176,000 - $264,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Node.js, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Los Altos, United States

About the role

• Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute improving quality of human life through general-purpose robotics. Developing machine learning models and collaborating on cutting-edge research and technology.

Responsibilities

• Create general-purpose robots capable of accomplishing a wide variety of dexterous tasks.
• Build general-purpose machine learning foundation models for dexterous robot manipulation.
• Utilize generative AI techniques to produce robot action from sensor data and human requests.
• Create a large curriculum of embodied robot demonstration data and combine it with various data types.
• Collaborate in code infrastructure and work with both simulated and real robots.
• Participate in publishing work to peer-reviewed venues and open-sourcing code.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with using machine learning for learned control, including RL, offline RL or behavior cloning, for manipulation.
• Strong software development skills in Python.
• A “make it happen” demeanour and comfort with fast prototyping.
• A passion for robotics and doing research grounded in important fundamental problems.
• A track record of relevant publications in top international conferences (RSS, NeuRIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, …)
• Bonus Qualifications - Hardware experience.
• A track record of relevant open-source software contributions.
• Experience working with large-scale datasets and multi-node training

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) eligibility
• Paid time off benefits (including vacation, sick time, and parental leave)
• Annual cash bonus structure