Embodied AI & Robotics Research Scientist

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 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.