Remote VP, Physical AI & Robotics Research

Pro Integrate LLC; New York (NY); Remote; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Performance-based bonuses

Remote-first workforce

Health insurance coverage

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a VP of Robotics Research to define and lead the Physical AI research agenda, building a world-class team and partnering with leading AI and robotics labs. You will drive research across robotics, embodied agents, learning, data strategies, and evaluation while bridging simulation and real systems to accelerate discovery and impact.

This remote-first leadership role offers a competitive base salary, equity, and bonuses, plus health benefits and a strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Deep Physical AI expertise in robotics or embodied AI.
• Strong understanding of modern robot learning, multimodal models, and planning.
• Experience leading research teams and setting strategic direction.

Responsibilities

• Set the Physical AI research agenda across robotics, agents, learning, data, and evaluation.
• Build agents that operate in the physical world, bridging models to robots and instruments.
• Lead research on vision-language-action models, imitation, reinforcement learning, and world models.
• Develop scalable data-generation systems using demonstrations, teleoperation, simulation, and hybrid workflows.
• Build and lead a world-class research team and collaborate with top labs.

Skills

Physical AI

Robotics

Multimodal models

Imitation learning

Reinforcement learning

World models

Planning

Systems thinking

Research leadership

Education

Master's or PhD in Robotics/CS/AI/ML/Engineering

Tools

ROS/ROS2

MuJoCo

ManiSkill

Isaac Lab

Job description

micro1 is seeking a VP of Robotics Research to define and lead the Physical AI research agenda, building a world-class team and partnering with leading AI and robotics labs. You will drive research across robotics, embodied agents, learning, data strategies, and evaluation while bridging simulation and real systems to accelerate discovery and impact.

This remote-first leadership role offers a competitive base salary, equity, and bonuses, plus health benefits and a strong emphasis on