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Job Summary:
Boston Dynamics is a robotics company known for its innovative humanoid robots. They are seeking a Research Scientist to lead projects on reinforcement learning for dexterous manipulation tasks, focusing on visual sim-to-real transfer and post-training of Vision-Language-Action models.
Responsibilities:
• Develop novel algorithms for visual sim-to-real transfer with photorealistic rendering
• Design post-training recipes that improve pretrained VLA models on manipulation tasks
• Research reward modeling, and offline-to-online RL for large multimodal policies
• Close the sim-2-real gap through tactile sensing, vision, and system identification
• Train policies that generalize across objects, scenes, and embodiments
Qualifications:
Required:
• PhD, in ML, Robotics, or a related field or a MS with 3+ years of experience
• Track record of first-author publications at top venues (CoRL, RSS, ICLR, NeuRIPS)
• Demonstrated experience training policies for dexterous or contact-rich manipulation
• Hands-on experience with VLA models, diffusion policies, or large behavior models
• Proficient in PyTorch and/or JAX, with experience training models at scale
• Strong software fundamentals and the ability to ship research code that runs reliably
Preferred:
• Deployed vision-based manipulation policies on physical robots
• Deep knowledge of sim-to-real transfer techniques and photorealistic rendering
• Built training pipelines that combine RL, imitation learning, and large-scale pretraining
• Experience fine-tuning foundation models with RLHF, DPO, GRPO, or related methods
• Familiarity with tactile sensing, multi-fingered hands, or bimanual coordination
Company:
Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation. It is a sub-organization of Hyundai Motor Company. Founded in 1992, the company is headquartered in Waltham, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.