zaimler
Founding Research Scientist at stealth physical AI startup
San Francisco, CA
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About the role
- By training end-to-end manipulation policies and designing evaluation frameworks, you will bridge the gap between high-quality real-world interaction data and model performance.
- Rare opportunity to join as a founding member with minority co-founder level equity and full ownership of the research agenda.
- Work at the critical intersection of robotics and data infrastructure, solving the primary bottleneck preventing the scaling of physical AI.
Responsibilities
- Build the end-to-end data-to-policy validation pipeline to ensure high-quality tactile and interaction data translates to performance.
- Strong desire to work in an early-stage, hands-on individual contributor role with the ambition to build a research function from scratch.
- Collaborate directly with a technical founding team in a high-autonomy environment where you set the research direction and validation strategy.
- Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
Requirements
- The ideal candidate:
Compensation
- $14k-$81k
Benefits
- This hands-on role offers significant equity and the chance to build a research stack from zero.
- Train and evaluate real-world robot manipulation policies using imitation learning, diffusion policies, or vision-language-action models.
- I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career.
Company info
- Stealth physical AI startup
- This is a job that Jill, our AI Recruiter, is recruiting for on behalf of one of our customers.
- She will pick the best candidates from Jack's network
- The next step is to speak to Jack https://jackandjill.ai/jobs/founding-research-scientist-at-stealth-physical-ai-startup-ae8517f6-9b99-4c22-ba81-14cd73f557e5?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=job_post&utm_campaign=featured_role_ae8517f6-9b99-4c22-ba81-14cd73f557e5.
- Founding Research Scientist
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