About the job
The Allen Institute is hiring a Research Scientist in Robotics to join the Ai2 Robotics Team in Seattle, WA. This position requires working from the Seattle office, with specific on-site expectations depending on team and project needs. For questions about work arrangements, candidates should speak directly with a recruiter.
Role overview
This role centers on fundamental research in robotics, with a focus on foundation models. The work involves developing open methodologies, datasets, benchmarks, and models. Research Scientists here design and run practical experiments using both large-scale simulation tools and real-world robots.
Responsibilities include leading research projects, mentoring interns and pre-doctoral researchers, writing scientific papers, and collaborating with peers from other institutions such as universities. The team values ambitious research and aims for significant breakthroughs rather than incremental progress.
Key focus areas
- Robot manipulation
- Large-scale training in simulated environments
- Sim-to-real transfer
- Foundation models
- Skill learning
The team regularly publishes in leading conferences and journals in robotics (CoRL, ICRA, RSS), computer vision (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV), and machine learning (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML).
Compensation
Base salary ranges from $167,030 to $260,570. The total compensation package also includes generous bonus plans.
About the team
Led by Dieter Fox, the Robotics group at Ai2 focuses on scalable simulation domains to analyze the scaling and generalization of foundation models for robotics. The team is committed to open-source research and aims to advance the development of broadly capable robots for societal benefit.
