About this role

As VP of Robotics Research at the company, you will define and lead our research agenda for Physical AI — intelligent systems that can understand, reason about, and act in the physical world. You will set research direction across these areas, stay close to models and physical systems, build a world-class research team, and partner with leading AI and robotics labs on their hardest Physical AI problems. The national pay range for this full-time position is base salary of $250,000 –$350,000.

Requirements

Deep Physical AI expertise. Significant experience in robotics, embodied AI, robot learning, autonomous systems, or related fields.
Strong learning and agentic systems intuition. Deep understanding of modern robot learning, multimodal models, imitation learning, reinforcement learning,….
Physical systems intuition. Strong understanding of sensing, calibration, control, contact, actuation, latency, uncertainty, and hardware constraints.
Exceptional research taste. You identify problems that can meaningfully expand what AI systems can do in the physical world.
Experimental rigor. You turn open questions into strong hypotheses, controlled experiments, meaningful baselines, and evidence-backed conclusions.

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