Robotics Researcher (PhD) | Remote

Crossing Hurdles; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Crossing Hurdles in the United States is seeking a Robotics Research Lead to define and execute research strategy for robotics data, embodied AI, and robot learning. You will lead initiatives on datasets, multimodal representations, perception, manipulation, and data-centric learning.

You will build and mentor a team of Robotics Researchers, foster rigor and rapid experimentation, design scalable data pipelines, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver production-ready robotics data

Qualifications

• Significant experience in robotics research, embodied AI, robot learning, or robotics software engineering.
• Experience leading or mentoring high-performing technical or research teams.
• Deep understanding of robotics data pipelines, multimodal datasets, and data infrastructure for robot learning.
• Strong expertise in robot perception, manipulation, control, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or foundation models for robotics.
• Experience designing and evaluating large-scale robotics datasets and data collection strategies.
• Ability to bridge research and engineering, translating cutting-edge ideas into scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the research strategy for robotics data, embodied AI, and robot learning.
• Lead research initiatives focused on robotics datasets, multimodal representations, perception, manipulation, and data-centric learning.
• Build, mentor, and grow a team of Robotics Researchers while fostering a culture of scientific rigor, curiosity, and rapid experimentation.
• Develop novel approaches for collecting robotics data through teleoperation, human demonstrations, simulation, autonomous exploration, and real-world deployments.
• Design scalable robotics data pipelines by defining collection workflows, annotation schemas, quality control processes, evaluation methodologies, and final data delivery formats.
• Partner with research, engineering, product, and operations teams to operationalize pipeline designs and deliver production-ready robotics data solutions.

Skills

Robotics research

Leadership

Data pipelines

Multimodal datasets

Perception

Manipulation

Reinforcement learning

Foundation models

Job description

• Define and execute the research strategy for robotics data, embodied AI, and robot learning.
• Lead research initiatives focused on robotics datasets, multimodal representations, perception, manipulation, and data-centric learning.
• Build, mentor, and grow a team of Robotics Researchers while fostering a culture of scientific rigor, curiosity, and rapid experimentation.
• Develop novel approaches for collecting robotics data through teleoperation, human demonstrations, simulation, autonomous exploration, and real-world deployments.
• Design scalable robotics data pipelines by defining collection workflows, task taxonomies, annotation schemas, quality control processes, evaluation methodologies, and final data delivery formats.
• Partner with research, engineering, product, and operations teams to operationalize pipeline designs and deliver production-ready robotics data solutions.

Requirements

• Significant experience in robotics research, embodied AI, robot learning, or robotics software engineering.
• Experience leading or mentoring high-performing technical or research teams.
• Deep understanding of robotics data pipelines, multimodal datasets, and data infrastructure for robot learning.
• Strong expertise in robot perception, manipulation, control, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or foundation models for robotics.
• Experience designing and evaluating large-scale robotics datasets and data collection strategies.
• Ability to bridge research and engineering, translating cutting-edge ideas into scalable systems.