AI Research Scientist, Robotics

Meta; Redmond, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta in Redmond is seeking a Research Scientist to advance robotics systems through design, modeling, and prototype development. You will work in a focused incubation team with a broad group of scientists and engineers, exploring robotics and AI topics at scale.

The role requires a PhD or active pursuit in AI, robotics, or related fields, with strong track records in publications or patents, and hands-on experience with simulations, hardware, and cross-disciplinary teamwork.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field; PhD in AI/Robotics or related field preferred.
• 2+ years of industry experience in robotics research fields such as learning, RL, imitation learning, or embodied AI.
• Proven track record of significant results via grants, fellowships, patents, or publications at top venues.
• Experience solving complex problems, evaluating tradeoffs, and selecting paths forward.
• Experience with robot simulations and real-world hardware; cross-functional teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and prototype novel robotic architectures and systems.
• Conduct research and problem solving across diverse robotics topics.
• Collaborate with a broad set of scientists and engineers across the organization.
• Prototype fabrication and testing to validate concepts.

Skills

Robotics

Motion Planning

Embodied AI

Human-Robot Interaction

Sim-to-Real Transfer

Learning from Demonstration

Reinforcement Learning

Dexterous Manipulation

Digital Agents

Vision-Language Models

Computer Vision

Egocentric Perception

LLMs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

PhD in AI/Robotics or related field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Python

Job description

The ideal Research Scientist candidate will use their skills in system design and modeling and possess knowledge of a wide variety of components and technologies.

These roles will require research and problem-solving skills, as well as fabrication and prototyping to design, develop, and construct novel prototypes and architectures.

These roles will work in a focused incubation team and collaborate with a large and wide-ranging set of scientists and engineers in the greater organization.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Language, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience with any of the following research areas:

• robotics
• motion planning
• embodied AI
• human-robot interaction
• sim-to-real transfer
• learning from demonstration
• reinforcement learning
• dexterous manipulation
• digital agents
• vision language models
• computer vision
• egocentric perception
• and/or LLMs

Experience in relevant robotics related research areas, such as:

• VLM
• robot learning
• reinforcement learning
• imitation learning
• action-conditioned world models
• task and motion planning
• sim-to-real transfer robotic control
• manipulation
• navigation
• or generally embodied AI

Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and different perspectives to determine a path forward

Experience working with robot simulations and real-world hardware

Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment

2+ years of industry experience in relevant robotics related research areas, such as:

• robot learning
• reinforcement learning
• imitation learning
• action-conditioned world modelstask and motion planning
• sim-to-real transfer robotic control
• manipulation
• navigation
• or generally embodied AI

Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as publications at leading workshops, journals or conferences in Machine Learning (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR), Robotics (ICRA, IROS, RSS, CoRL), Computer Vision (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV)

Experience with manipulating and analyzing complex, large scale, high-dimensionality data from varying sources

Experience building systems based on machine learning and/or deep learning methods

Demonstrated research and software engineering experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub)

Experience with deep learning frameworks (such as PyTorch, Tensorflow) and Python