# Senior Robotics Research Scientist

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are now looking for a Senior Robotics Research Scientist! NVIDIA's robotics teams are on a mission to build the essential technology that can enable any company to become a robotics company. The Seattle Robotics Lab is focused on fundamental and applied robotics research across the full robotics stack, including perception, planning, control, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and simulation.

The Seattle Robotics Lab has led many influential works that have been presented at top robotics, AI, and computer vision conferences; these works include BayesSim, cuRobo, DeXtreme, DiSECT, Factory, GraspNet, ITPS, MimicGen, RVT, and SHAC. The work has deeply impacted the research community and NVIDIA products, including Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, and Isaac Manipulator.

**Responsibilities:**

- Developing algorithms, models, and methods for robotic manipulation and loco-manipulation, for both industrial and household applications;

- Integrating these methods into real-world robotic manipulation systems, including those consisting of collaborative robot arms, industrial robot arms, mobile manipulators, humanoids, and dexterous hands;

- Co-leading and contributing to multi-person research projects that require a diverse set of skills across the robotics and machine learning stack;

- Engaging with the academic community through high-impact publications, conferences, workshops, and code releases;

- Collaborating with product managers and engineering teams to transfer your research into NVIDIA products that will have real-world impact;

- Mentoring interns and more junior research scientists and engineers.

**Requirements:**

- A PhD in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). At least 3 years of research experience after completing your PhD; 5+ years is preferred.

- Deep knowledge of both the theory and practice of robotics and AI, with a strong interest in connecting your work to real-world robotics applications.

- A proven track record of research excellence, with work published in top robotics and AI conferences and journals such as RSS, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, IJRR, T-RO, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and EMNLP.

- Exceptional communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, with significant experience working on teams as both a leader and a contributor.

- Exceptional programming skills in Python; in addition, familiarity with C++, CUDA, and Warp is a plus.

- Fluency in modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and JAX. Significant experience with robotics frameworks such as ROS2 and physics simulation frameworks such as Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, and MuJoCo.

- Deep comfort in working through the complexities of simulation and real-world robotics, including debugging physics simulators and renderers under rapid development; selecting, setting up, maintaining, and enhancing complex robotics hardware; debugging communication systems; and designing robust workflows for model training and evaluation.

**Benefits:** You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- C++
- CUDA
- Warp
- PyTorch
- JAX
- ROS2
- Isaac Sim
- Isaac Lab
- MuJoCo

### Nice to have
- bimanual and dexterous manipulation
- mobile manipulation and humanoid loco-manipulation
- multisensory perception
- simulation, sim-to-real, and real-to-sim
- vision-language-action (VLA) models
- industrial applications

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