Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Model
WayveAutonomous Driving company
Sunnyvale, United States$370,000 - $419,000Senior
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About the role
TL;DR
Research Scientist building foundation models for general-purpose robots.
- •Wayve is seeking a Research Scientist to join the Multi-Embodiment Generalist Agent (MEGA) team as a founding member.
- •This role focuses on building foundation models for general-purpose robots beyond self-driving vehicles, aiming to create intelligent agents capable of perceiving, reasoning, moving, and manipulating the physical world across diverse embodiments.
- •Key Responsibilities Research model architectures, data, and learning approaches for robot foundation models.
- •Design, implement, and evaluate models such as VLAs, WAMs, omni-modal models, and video 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.
- •Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and robotics teams to connect research progress to real-world robot performance.
- •Requirements Experience in machine learning, with a 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 run rigorous experiments while collaborating closely with engineering and robotics teams.
Required skills
PythonTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnComputer VisionNLPLLMsGitLinux
Domain expertise
aiautomotive
Benefits & perks
Equity, Hybrid work policy
Tech stack
PythonTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnComputer VisionNLPLLMsGitLinux