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Toyota Research Institute · 4 hours ago

Robotics Machine Learning Research Scientist - Large Behavior Models

Los Altos, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$176K/yr - $264K/yr

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is on a mission to improve the quality of human life through innovative tools and capabilities. They are seeking a Robotics Machine Learning Research Scientist to develop general-purpose robots capable of dexterous tasks using machine learning foundation models.

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Comp. & Benefits

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Responsibilities

Data-efficient and general algorithms for learning robust policies using multiple sensing modalities: proprioception, images, 3D representations, force, and dense tactile sensing

Scaling learning approaches to large-scale models trained on diverse sources of data, including web-scale text, images, and video

Leveraging test time computation for embodied applications

Quick and efficient improvement of learned policies

Continual Learning and Adaption

Multi-Modal Reasoning Models

Structured hierarchical reasoning using learned models

Reinforcement Learning with Language Action Models

Leveraging history and memory for learning policies for long context tasks

Improving robustness and few-shot generalization by using sub-optimal and self-play data

Interactive agents that can reduce the embodied and instructional ambiguity and can seek help and clarification

Qualification

Machine LearningReinforcement LearningPythonMulti-Modal DatasetsRoboticsSoftware DevelopmentFast PrototypingResearch PublicationsHardware ExperienceOpen-Source Contributions

Required

Hands-on experience with using machine learning for learned control, including RL, offline RL or behavior cloning, for manipulation

Experience with machine learning and familiarity with large multi-modal datasets and models

Strong software development skills in Python

A “make it happen” demeanour and comfort with fast prototyping

A passion for robotics and doing research grounded in important fundamental problems

A track record of relevant publications in top international conferences (RSS, NeuRIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, …)

Preferred

Hardware experience

A track record of relevant open-source software contributions

Experience working with large-scale datasets and multi-node training

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) eligibility

Paid time off benefits (including vacation, sick time, and parental leave)

Annual cash bonus structure

Company

Toyota Research Institute

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Toyota Research Institute is an R&D enterprise with an initial focus on artificial intelligence and robotics.

Founded in 2016

Palo Alto, California, USA

201-500 employees

http://www.tri.global

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