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Research Scientist - World-Action Foundation Model, Robotics

The Robot Age

What the role actually is Applied Intuition is hiring research scientists for its AI research group, with this posting focused on world-action foundation models for robotics. The team frames the work around next-generation physical AI, especially end-to-end autonomous driving and robotic generalists. This is an in-office Sunnyvale research role. It is relevant to the board because the work is about how embodied systems represent the world, choose actions, and generalize across tasks. What you would work on Research world-action model approaches for robots and autonomous systems Build experiments that connect model behavior to physical AI performance Work with a research group spanning robotics, autonomy, simulation, and data Turn research results into infrastructure that can support real robotic systems What they are asking for Research strength in machine learning, robotics, embodied AI, or foundation models Ability to design and evaluate experiments for action-generating systems Publication, implementation, or applied research evidence in relevant areas Comfort working in a highly technical in-office research environment Why this one is worth a look World models are becoming a central bet in robot learning. Applied's angle is worth tracking because it is trying to connect that research to infrastructure for moving machines, not only to a lab demo or a single robot form factor. #J-18808-Ljbffr The Robot Age

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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