Young Investigator, Robotics

Are you passionate about taking artificial intelligence to the next level, to solve problems that require modeling, reasoning, and explanation?

We are looking for talented researchers interested in applying their skills towards the next generation of intelligent systems, and pursuing our mission of AI for the common good.

We look favorably upon extensive work experience and publishing peer reviewed work at top scientific venues in our field including RSS, CoRL, ICRA, NeurIPS, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, etc.

The Allen AI Young Investigator is a postdoctoral program offering unique benefits.

The program will enable you to balance working collaboratively on an Ai2 project while pursuing an independent research agenda.

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 are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan.

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.

Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses.

Dedicated Ai2 mentor: Mentorship in research, grant writing, and more.

50% collaborative work on an Ai2 project + UW projects.

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 properties of foundation models for robotics, and contribute to developing broadly competent robots that can operate in the real world.

Manipulation and skill learning