Founding Research Scientist

Overview

Join a founding team to define the research agenda from day one and push the boundaries of robot learning, world models, and vision-language-action systems. You will experiment on real robotic hardware, translate ideas into prototypes, and shape the company’s technical direction with high-impact results. This role offers significant equity and a chance to influence long-term research strategy. You will work closely with a small, highly technical founding team to deliver real-world robot intelligence.

Pay / Benefits

• significant equity

Responsibilities

• Lead research across robot learning, world models and VLA systems
• Develop new model architectures, training techniques and data collection methods
• Design rigorous evaluation methods for Physical AI systems
• Translate ideas from first principles and literature into prototypes and real-world experiments
• Investigate generalisation across tasks, environments and embodiments
• Publish research while shaping the company’s long-term technical direction

Key requirements

• Strong research experience across machine learning, robotics or computer vision
• Deep understanding of modern deep learning methods
• Excellent mathematical, experimental and problem-solving instincts
• Hands-on experience training and evaluating ML models
• Ability to form hypotheses, design experiments and learn quickly from results
• Curiosity for problems with non-obvious answers

• Curiosity-driven
• Independent and proactive
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking
• Robot learning
• World models
• Vision-language-action (VLA) systems

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