Boston Dynamics
Research Scientist, VLA Models - Atlas
Waltham Office (POST), USA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 34 days ago
PythonC++Machine LearningPyTorchRoboticsResearchCollaboration
About the role
- As a VLA Research Scientist on the Atlas team, you will architect, train, and deploy the large-scale behavior models that enable high-performance dexterous manipulation on Atlas.
Responsibilities
- You'll collaborate closely with robotics, controls, and software teams, and rapidly test your work on state-of-the-art humanoid hardware.
Requirements
- Experience with modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX) and large-scale training workflows.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience deploying learned policies on real robots.
- Experience creating or curating large demonstration datasets (teleop, human demos, ego-centric video).
- Publications in top-tier ML or robotics conferences (e.g., CoRL, RSS, ICRA, NeurIPS).
- Experience contributing to large C++ or Python codebases.
- Direct access to an advanced humanoid robot-test your models on hardware quickly and often.
- A collaborative, inclusive team that values diverse perspectives and identities.
- The opportunity to do applied VLA research with real-world impact.
- A mission-focused environment where your work will define the future of general-purpose humanoids.
Skills
- Architect and train end-to-end VLA and Large Behavior Models for mobile manipulation on Atlas.
- Integrate your models into Atlas's autonomy stack in collaboration with controls and platform teams.
- Deploy, debug, and iterate your models directly on physical hardware.
- Write high-quality, maintainable Python and C++ code that fits into a large production codebase.
Benefits
- Your work will focus on building models that take multimodal input (vision, language, task context, robot state), and produce grounded actions that generalize across manipulation tasks, embodiments, and environments.
- You will design large-scale behavior cloning and imitation learning pipelines, build hierarchical skill systems, and integrate learned components into a complex, real-world robotic system.
- Behavior cloning / imitation learning
- Multimodal (vision/language/action) learning
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