Are you passionate about using machine learning to drive robot behavior? Curious what you’d be able to accomplish with total access to Boston Dynamics robots? As a Research Scientist on the Atlas Behavior Learning team, you will join a world-class team of engineers and scientists focused on creating groundbreaking mobile manipulation behaviors for humanoids.
We are investing in reinforcement learning (RL) and behavioral cloning (BC) as a key technology for achieving dexterous and robust whole-body manipulation that can be deployed in real-world environments.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
Design, train, and deploy state of the art robot learning algorithms to tackle mobile &cz bimanual manipulation tasks
Contribute to foundation models shaping the future of humanoid robotics
Train control policies using RL to solve dexterous manipulation tasks
Distil many different policies using BC and RL with pixel observations
Deploying and debugging learned policies on Atlas
We are looking for:
MS with 3 years of industry experience or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field
Extensive Experience training and deploying RL policies for complex behaviors on real robots or simulated characters
Excitement for integrating, running, and evaluating their learned policies on the robot
Has in-depth knowledge about domain randomization to bridge the sim-2-real gap
Strong foundation in Python and modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch and Jax)
Experience in algorithm design, debugging, and performance optimization
The ideal candidate has:
A PhD or equivalent research experience in reinforcement learning or robotic manipulation
Publications at top tier venues including RSS, CoRL, Science Robotics, ICLR, NeuRIPS
Familiarity with behavior cloning and has trained a diffusion policy from images
Prior experience with student-teacher training workflows
Why join us?
Direct access to cutting-edge robots and the infrastructure to run large-scale experiments
A collaborative, mission-driven team where your ideas have real impact
The chance to help define what’s possible in real-world robotics
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What We Do
Boston Dynamics builds advanced mobile manipulation robots with remarkable mobility, dexterity perception and agility. We use sensor-based controls and computation to unlock the potential of complex mechanisms. Our world-class development teams develop prototypes for wild new concepts, do build-test-build engineering and field testing and transform successful designs into robot products. Our goal is to change your idea of what robots can do.
