Applied Scientist - Dexterous Robotics & Embodied AI

Generalist AI; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Generalist AI in Boston seeks an Applied Scientist to advance dexterous capabilities in embodied models. You will design post-training recipes, run large-scale evaluations, and push performance from baseline to mastery across robotics tasks.

This role blends research, engineering, and operations with collaboration across data, model, and hardware teams. A PhD in a relevant area and hands-on robotics experience are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Strong background in machine learning and/or robot learning.
• Experience designing and running large-scale experiments.
• Ability to communicate findings to diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end improvement of target capabilities from baseline to mastery.
• Design task suites and evaluation protocols that generalize beyond a single deployment.
• Coordinate data collection, training, fine-tuning, and large-scale evaluations.
• Run rigorous experimental analyses across model variants and data recipes.
• Collaborate with pretraining and post-training teams to improve the model.

Skills

Machine learning

Robot learning

Data analysis

Experimentation

Education

PhD in ML/Robotics

Job description

Generalist AI in Boston seeks an Applied Scientist to advance dexterous capabilities in embodied models. You will design post-training recipes, run large-scale evaluations, and push performance from baseline to mastery across robotics tasks.

This role blends research, engineering, and operations with collaboration across data, model, and hardware teams. A PhD in a relevant area and hands-on robotics experience are highly valued.