Research Scientist, Robotics - Meta Superintelligence Labs

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta seeks an AI Research Scientist to join Meta Superintelligence Labs. You will lead fundamental and applied research in embodied AI, pushing scientific frontiers across robotics, perception, and learning.

The role emphasizes data-driven methods, multi-modal data, and advancing long-horizon intelligence for real-world robotic systems. You will develop new algorithms using state-of-the-art ML/NNs, define capabilities for the next generation of AI, and collaborate cross-functionally to drive

Qualifications

• PhD in AI/Robotics/ML/CV or related field and completed (or in process) before joining Meta.

Responsibilities

• Perform fundamental and applied research to advance embodied AI.
• Invent data-driven paradigms for robotics across modalities (images, video, text, audio, tactile).
• Explore embodied behaviors from simulations to real robots for long- and short-horizon tasks.
• Develop algorithms using state-of-the-art ML and neural networks.
• Define, build and benchmark new capabilities for next-gen AI.
• Pursue long-term goals while identifying milestones.
• Conduct novel research aligned to organizational objectives.

Skills

Robot learning

Reinforcement learning

Imitation learning

Action-conditioned world models

Navigation

Vision-language models

Python

PyTorch

Education

PhD in AI/Robotics/ML/CV

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Tools

ROS

GitHub

Robotic simulators

Job description

About

Meta is seeking an AI Research Scientist to join Meta Superintelligence Labs. Individuals in this role are expected to be recognized experts in identified research areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and embodied AI, particularly including areas such as transfer learning, learning from demonstration, reinforcement learning, action-conditioned world models, perception, representation learning, robot control, navigation, mobile manipulation, dexterous manipulation, and vision-language models. You should have a keen interest in producing new, open science to make embodied agents more intelligent.

Responsibilities

• Perform fundamental and applied research to push the scientific and technological frontiers of embodied artificial intelligence.
• Invent/improve novel data-driven paradigms for robotics, leveraging a variety of modalities (images, video, text, audio, tactile, etc).
• Investigate paradigms that can deliver a spectrum of embodied behaviors from simulated characters to real robots, and from short-horizon, low-level to long-horizon, high-level intelligence.
• Develop algorithms based on state-of-the‑art machine learning and neural network methodologies.
• Define, build and benchmark new capabilities needed for the next generation of AI.
• Conduct research towards long-term research goals while identifying intermediate milestones.
• Execute novel research based on long-term objectives of the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
• Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Language, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in relevant robotics research areas such as: robot learning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, action-conditioned world models, task and motion planning, sim-to-real transfer, robotic control, dexterous manipulation, navigation, vision language models, or generally embodied AI
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment 2+ years of industry experience in relevant robotics related research areas, such as: robot learning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, action-conditioned world models, task and motion planning, sim-to-real transfer robotic control, manipulation, navigation, or generally embodied AI
• PhD degree in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Language, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as publications at leading workshops, journals or conferences in Machine Learning (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR), Robotics (ICRA, IROS, RSS, CoRL), Computer Vision (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV)
• Demonstrated research and software engineering experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub)
• Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and different perspectives to determine a path forward
• Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment
• Experience with robotics frameworks like ROS, along with experience working with robot simulations and real-world hardware
• Experience building systems based on machine learning and/or deep learning methods
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (such as pytorch, tensorflow) and Python
• Experience with manipulating and analyzing complex, large scale, high-dimensionality data from varying sources