Are you passionate about using machine learning to drive robot behavior? Curious what you’d be able to accomplish with total access to Boston Dynamics robots?

As a Research Scientist on the Atlas R&D team, you will join a world-class team of engineers and scientists focused on creating next-generation robot mobility and manipulation. Our team is interested in exploring new approaches to programming robot behaviors that leverage the latest techniques in reinforcement learning, behavior cloning, and foundation models. In this role you will be defining, training, and integrating learned models with existing subsystems to expand the behavioral capabilities of Atlas and other Boston Dynamics robots. 

How you will make an impact:

• Creatively identify and apply modern learning algorithms to real-world problems

• Write high-quality (documented, tested, maintainable) Python and C++ code

• Lead design reviews and collaborate closely with members of the Atlas controls, perception, and machine learning teams

• Deploy and debug your code on Atlas, Spot and other BD robots

We are looking for:

• MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field

• Prior experience applying RL or other types of learned models to create complex behaviors in simulated or physical robots or characters

• Experience with common ML tools, architectures, and workflows

• Strong analytical and debug skills

Nice to have:

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field

• Experience working with and contributing to large codebases

• Experience working with robot hardware