Machine Learning Research Scientist

Company: Understanding Recruitment
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will advance robotics intelligence through cutting-edge ML research. You’ll shape architectures for vision-language-action models and world models, and explore embodied representations to enable robots to learn and adapt in real-world environments. You’ll run large-scale experiments, translate academic ideas into practical research directions, and validate models on real robotic systems, contributing to an ambitious early-stage mission with equity potential.

Pay / Benefits

  • equity (early-stage)

Responsibilities

  • Develop new vision-language-action and world model architectures
  • Explore representations for embodied intelligence
  • Improve generalisation and transfer across tasks and environments
  • Design and run large-scale learning experiments
  • Translate research from papers into new directions
  • Test and validate models on real robotic hardware

Key requirements

  • vision-language-action models
  • world models
  • representation learning
  • robot learning

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Posted: October 22nd, 2026