Research Scientist

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About the role We are looking for high-impact researchers and engineers to help bridge the gap between robot foundation models and production robot deployment.

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About the Role

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We are looking for high-impact researchers and engineers to help bridge the gap between robot foundation models and production robot deployment. Speed and reliability are the two metrics that matter the most for industrial customers, yet most robot models struggle on both. You will post-train robot foundation models and do new research to hill climb task performance in our research lab and at real customer deployments.

Responsibilities

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→Improve our robots’ ability to quickly learn new tasks and to execute those tasks quickly and reliably
→Lead research efforts around improving our models’ robustness and performance for real world tasks
→Integrate trained models with our production robotics stack and work with deployment teams to scale models across real customer sites

Have experience with fine-tuning large models for downstream tasks (IL, RL, etc.)
Operate with high agency and are able to own significant research efforts end to end
Care deeply about evaluation, benchmarking, and failure analysis
A generalist who enjoys getting your hands dirty across the whole stack ML stack
Passionate about seeing robots make an impact in the real world

Nice to Have

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Experience applying ML to robotics, with hands-on robot experience
MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field

Expected Compensation

$200,000 - $350,000/annual salary + equity + benefits

This compensation range may be inclusive of several career levels at Ultra and will be narrowed during the interview process based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications. Adjustments outside of this range may be considered for candidates whose qualifications significantly differ from those outlined in the job description.