Embodied AI Robotics Research Engineer

Elorian; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Elorian, a well-funded, early-stage AI lab in Palo Alto, seeks researchers and engineers with robotics background to join foundation-model research efforts. You will apply domain knowledge to infuse physical-world priors into multimodal models and tackle robotics challenges across perception, planning, and control.

Join a tight-knit team of world-class scientists and engineers, collaborating with core researchers to build scalable data pipelines, evaluate model capabilities, and deploy

Qualifications

• Strong robotics background with research or engineering experience in perception, planning, control, or robot learning.
• Experience applying ML to multimodal foundation models and real-world robotics challenges.
• Familiarity with survey of large-language and vision-language architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop Visual & Spatial Intelligence for Robotics within multimodal foundation models.
• Architect robotics data pipelines including collection, teleoperation, and trajectory annotation.
• Explore embodied reasoning and task planning powered by multimodal models.
• Bridge foundation models with robotics applications to address real-world bottlenecks.

Skills

Robotics perception

Robot planning

Robot control

Multimodal deep learning

Foundation models

Vision-Language-Action

Problem solving

Education

PhD or MSc in Robotics/ML

Tools

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Python

PyTorch/TensorFlow

Job description

Elorian, a well-funded, early-stage AI lab in Palo Alto, seeks researchers and engineers with robotics background to join foundation-model research efforts. You will apply domain knowledge to infuse physical-world priors into multimodal models and tackle robotics challenges across perception, planning, and control.

Join a tight-knit team of world-class scientists and engineers, collaborating with core researchers to build scalable data pipelines, evaluate model capabilities, and deploy