AI Research Scientist, Robotics - Meta Superintelligence Labs

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta is seeking an AI Research Scientist for the Robotics division within Meta Superintelligence Labs. The role focuses on embodied AI, learning from demonstration, reinforcement learning, and vision-language models to advance intelligent robotic systems.

You will conduct fundamental and applied research, build data-driven paradigms, and publish open science. Candidates should have a PhD in AI/robotics or related fields and experience across multiple robotics paradigms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Language, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with robotics, embodied AI, human-robot interaction, sim-to-real transfer, learning from demonstration, reinforcement learning, dexterous manipulation, digital agents, vision language models, egocentric perception, and/or Large Language Models.
• Must obtain work authorization in the United States at time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Responsibilities

• Perform fundamental and applied research to push the scientific and technological frontiers of embodied artificial intelligence.
• Invent and improve data-driven paradigms for robotics across modalities (images, video, text, audio, tactile).
• Investigate embodied behaviors from simulated characters to real robots across horizons.
• Develop algorithms using state-of-the-art ML and neural network methods.
• Define, build, and benchmark capabilities for the next generation of AI.
• Drive long-term research goals with clear intermediate milestones.
• Lead, plan, and execute novel research aligned with organizational objectives.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Open science advocacy

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

PhD in AI/Robotics/ML/CS or related field

Tools

ROS

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Python

Job description

Meta is seeking an AI Research Scientist to join Meta Superintelligence Labs. Individuals in this role are expected to be recognized experts in identified research areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and embodied AI, particularly including areas such as transfer learning, learning from demonstration, reinforcement learning, action-conditioned world models, perception, representation learning, robot control, navigation, mobile manipulation, dexterous manipulation, and vision-language models. You should have a keen interest in producing new, open science to make embodied agents more intelligent.

AI Research Scientist, Robotics - Meta Superintelligence Labs Responsibilities

• Perform fundamental and applied research to push the scientific and technological frontiers of embodied artificial intelligence
• Invent and improve novel data-driven paradigms for robotics, leveraging a variety of modalities (images, video, text, audio, tactile, etc.)
• Investigate paradigms that can deliver a spectrum of embodied behaviors - from simulated characters to real robots, and from short-horizon, low-level to long-horizon, high-level intelligence
• Develop algorithms based on state-of-the-art machine learning and neural network methodologies
• Define, build, and benchmark new capabilities needed for the next generation of AI
• Conduct research towards long-term research goals while identifying intermediate milestones
• Lead, plan, and execute novel research based on long-term objectives of the organization

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 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, embodied AI, human-robot interaction, sim-to-real transfer, learning from demonstration, reinforcement learning, dexterous manipulation, digital agents, vision language models, egocentric perception, and/or Large Language Models
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during the employment

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 models, task and motion planning, sim-to-real transfer robotic control, manipulation, navigation, or generally embodied AI
• Experience with robotics frameworks like ROS, along with experience working with robot simulations and real-world hardware
• 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 deep learning frameworks (such as PyTorch, TensorFlow) and Python
• 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)

About Meta

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$154,000/year to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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