Principal Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Model
WayveAutonomous Driving company
Sunnyvale, United States$407,000 - $512,000Lead
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About the role
TL;DR
Lead research and development of foundation models for general-purpose robots.
- •Wayve is seeking a Principal Research Scientist to join the Multi-Embodiment Generalist Agent (MEGA) team.
- •This role focuses on building foundation models for general-purpose robots beyond self-driving vehicles, aiming for intelligent agents that can interact with the physical world.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead research into architectures, data, and learning approaches for robot foundation models.
- •Design, implement, and evaluate models such as VLAs, WAMs, and omni-modal models for robotics.
- •Explore and develop learning approaches including reinforcement learning and behavioral cloning.
- •Synthesize, curate, and filter large-scale video datasets for model training and evaluation.
- •Build and use scalable distributed training pipelines and infrastructure for large models.
- •Requirements Deep experience in machine learning, with focus in one or more of: vision-language models, video models, robot policies, foundation models for robotics or embodied AI.
- •Experience with scalable training, such as multi-node training, large datasets and/or large model training.
- •Strong research track record, including publications in top-tier venues.
- •Strong coding skills and hands-on experience with modern machine learning frameworks.
- •Ability to design and drive an independent research agenda while collaborating closely with engineering and robotics teams.
Required skills
PythonTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnComputer VisionLLMsGitLinuxAWSGoogle CloudAzureDockerKubernetesCI/CD
Domain expertise
aiautomotive
Benefits & perks
Equity, Hybrid work
Tech stack
PythonTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnComputer VisionLLMsGitLinuxAWSGoogle CloudAzureDockerKubernetesCI/CD