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Robotics Foundation Model Scientist

Wayve

Wayve, based in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Research Scientist to join the MEGA team as a founding member. The role focuses on building foundation models for general-purpose robots beyond self-driving systems. You will work across the robot-learning stack: develop model architectures, data pipelines, and evaluations, and deploy policies on physical robots. The role offers collaboration with researchers, ML engineers and hardware teams, plus room for growth and innovation. #J-18808-Ljbffr Wayve

Vacancy posted 3 days ago
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