The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Young Investigator, Robotics

Seattle, WA

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About the role

  • Persons in these roles are expected to work from our offices in Seattle.
  • If you have questions about on-site work arrangements for this role, please ask your recruiter.
  • The program will enable you to balance working collaboratively on an Ai2 project while pursuing an independent research agenda.

Responsibilities

  • 50% work on your own projects.
  • We develop foundational AI research and innovation to deliver real-world impact through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond.
  • We value diversity - We seek to hire, support, and promote people from all genders, ethnicities, and all levels of experience regardless of age.
  • To perform this job successfully, the team member(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently.
  • The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.
  • This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.

Requirements

  • Duration: 1-3 years
  • The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.
  • Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.
  • Team members will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

Compensation

  • Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses.

Benefits

  • Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, and an employee assistance program.
  • Team members are able to enroll in our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
  • Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
  • Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
  • Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others.

Company info

  • Ai2's Robotics team is led by Dieter Fox. We aim to develop and leverage scalable simulation domains to scientifically investigate the scaling and generalization capabilities of foundation models for robotics, and use these insights to develop broadly competent robots. Following a longstanding tradition at Ai2, we are committed to fully open-source research and work toward application domains with a positive impact on society.
  • We are looking for applicants interested in robotics, with a focus on core techniques in robot manipulation, large scale training in simulated environments, sim-to-real transfer, robot foundation models, and skill learning.
  • As a Predoctoral Young Investigator on the Robotics team, you will have the opportunity to work in a variety of research areas including:
  • Robot foundation models - Investigate the scaling and generalization of foundation models for robotics, and contribute to developing broadly competent robots that can operate in the real world.
  • Manipulation and skill learning - Develop agents that manipulate objects, follow instructions, and acquire new skills across diverse tasks, in both simulation and on real robot hardware.
  • Simulation and sim-to-real - Build and leverage scalable, GPU-accelerated simulation environments for large-scale training, and develop pipelines that transfer learned policies reliably to real-world robots.
  • Open source research - Make substantial contributions to the fully open methods, datasets, benchmarks, and tools that enable rigorous, reproducible, and distributed experimentation.
  • Ai2's Robotics team is led by Dieter Fox.
  • We aim to develop and leverage scalable simulation domains to scientifically investigate the scaling and generalization capabilities of foundation models for robotics, and use these insights to develop broadly competent robots.
  • Following a longstanding tradition at Ai2, we are committed to fully open-source research and work toward application domains with a positive impact on society.
  • We regularly publish in high-profile conferences and journals in robotics (CoRL, ICRA, RSS), computer vision (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV), and machine learning (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML).
  • We collaborate frequently with researchers on other Ai2 teams focused on computer vision, large language models, and others.
  • Our main office has close ties and unique access to researchers at the University of Washington, only 1.5 miles away.
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