Senior Robotics Researcher: Embodied AI & VLA (Remote)

Gradient Consulting; Time; Remote; NOK 1,890,000 - 3,025,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Bonuses

Health-insurance premium reimbursement

401(K) with company match

Remote-first workforce

Job summary

micro1 is hiring a Robotics Researcher to drive frontier research in embodied AI, robot learning, and physical AI systems. You will design and execute end-to-end robotics experiments, leveraging real-world data, simulation, and human-in-the-loop systems to evaluate and improve robot performance.

This role focuses on advancing vision-language-action models, generalist robot policies, world models, and embodied intelligence, with hands-on work across data collection, simulation, and real-world

Qualifications

• Strong background in robotics, embodied AI, or related ML research.
• Hands-on experience with robot learning models, VLA models, or generalist policies.
• Proficiency in Python; experience with PyTorch, ROS, or simulators.
• Experience designing robotics experiments with real-world data.
• Ability to translate research into measurable performance gains.

Responsibilities

• Lead frontier robotics research across VLA models and embodied AI.
• Design end-to-end experimentation systems for teleoperation, simulation, and real-world evaluation.
• Develop high-fidelity simulations using real-world data to evaluate robot policies.
• Leverage our Flow platform to structure and scale robotics datasets.
• Identify failure modes and improve datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation methods.

Skills

Robotics research

Embodied AI

Robot learning

Computer vision

Python

PyTorch

ROS

Education

PhD preferred

Tools

MuJoCo

Isaac Sim

ROS

Job description

micro1 is hiring a Robotics Researcher to drive frontier research in embodied AI, robot learning, and physical AI systems. You will design and execute end-to-end robotics experiments, leveraging real-world data, simulation, and human-in-the-loop systems to evaluate and improve robot performance.

This role focuses on advancing vision-language-action models, generalist robot policies, world models, and embodied intelligence, with hands-on work across data collection, simulation, and real-world