Remote Robotics & Embodied AI Research Scientist

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Performance bonuses

Remote-first workforce

Health insurance reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a Robotics Researcher to push frontier embodied AI, robot learning, and VLA models. This remote-friendly role focuses on end-to-end experimentation with real-world data, simulation, and human-in-the-loop systems to advance policy and control for real robots.

You will design scalable experiments, build high-fidelity simulations from real data, and collaborate with AI and robotics teams to translate findings into practical, deployable solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong background in robotics, embodied AI, robot learning, or applied ML research.
• Hands-on experience training or evaluating robot learning models, including VLA models, imitation learning, or generalist policies.
• Proficiency in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch, ROS, or simulation environments.
• Experience designing robotics experiments involving real-world data collection, simulation, policy evaluation, or hardware deployment.
• Understanding of robot learning methodologies, multimodal perception, and sim-to-real transfer challenges.
• Ability to analyze model behavior and translate research findings into measurable performance improvements.
• Strong research ownership and ability to execute complex technical projects.
• Strong technical communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead frontier robotics research across VLA models, generalist policies, world models, and emerging embodied AI approaches.
• Design end-to-end experimentation systems spanning teleoperation, data collection, simulation, policy deployment, and real-world evaluation.
• Develop high-fidelity simulations using real-world data to evaluate robot policies and validate performance in physical environments.
• Leverage flow, our human-in-the-loop annotation platform, to structure and scale robotics datasets from egocentric video, teleoperation demonstrations, and multimodal sensor data.
• Investigate model limitations, failure modes, and sim-to-real gaps to develop improved datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation methodologies.
• Rapidly prototype and validate novel approaches to robot learning, policy optimization, and embodied intelligence.
• Independently identify high-impact research opportunities and lead projects from initial exploration through experimentation and scalable implementation.

Skills

Robotics research

Robot learning

Vision language model

Python

PyTorch

ROS

Experiment design

Technical communication

Tools

MuJoCo

Isaac Sim

Job description

micro1 is seeking a Robotics Researcher to push frontier embodied AI, robot learning, and VLA models. This remote-friendly role focuses on end-to-end experimentation with real-world data, simulation, and human-in-the-loop systems to advance policy and control for real robots.

You will design scalable experiments, build high-fidelity simulations from real data, and collaborate with AI and robotics teams to translate findings into practical, deployable solutions.