Ai2 · 1 month ago
Research Scientist, Robotics
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$167K/yr - $261K/yrThe Allen Institute is a Seattle-based non-profit AI research institute focused on building breakthrough AI to solve the world's biggest problems. They are seeking a Research Scientist in Robotics to develop and investigate core research problems in foundation models and skills for robotics, while contributing to the development of open datasets and engaging in various research activities.
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Responsibilities
Develop and investigate core research problems in foundation models and skills for robotics
Contribute to the development of completely open data sets, benchmarks, and models
Experiment with robots in the real world
Work on multiple exciting research projects in robotics, language & vision, and open source projects
Lead select projects, mentor interns and pre-doctoral candidates, author and present scientific papers, and collaborate with researchers at other organizations
Qualification
Required
A strong foundation (typically PhD level) in one or more of the following areas: robot manipulation, planning and motion generation, RL and imitation learning, real world robot systems, simulation environments and sim2real, vision-language-action models
A strong publication record in AI-related areas. Example venues include ICRA, RSS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, etc. Contributions to research communities (e.g. workshop organization, tutorials) are a plus
Strong software engineering skills
Experience working with real robot systems and/or with deep learning frameworks
Preferred
Research experience in related areas like large-scale multi-node training, training dynamics, efficiency, data curation, multimodal model debugging, post-training methods, among others
Contributions to open-source research libraries
Benefits
Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
Team members are able to enroll in our voluntary life insurance program, our voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program, our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
Team members are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the long-term incentive plan.
Company
Ai2
We are a Seattle-based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen.
Founded in 2014
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$152MKey Investors
NVIDIA
2025-08-14Grant· $152M
Leadership Team
Chris Emura
Executive Director, Head of Applied Science & Technology
David Albright
Head of Design and Communications
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