What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Engineer position at Scaled Foundations, Inc?
Scaled Foundations is an AI research and deployment company building general robot intelligence, and we are seeking a Research Engineer to join our team. We conduct focused research and engineering to build generalized robotics foundation models that work across form factors such as aerial, ground, manipulation, and others. We are looking for strong candidates who have a background in robotics and machine learning, with experience in areas like multimodal machine learning; synthetic data generation through simulation; LLMs; reinforcement learning and imitation learning for robotics; efficient training and inference.
Research Engineer Responsibilities
- Design methods, tools, and infrastructure to push forward the state-of-the-art in robotics and foundation models.
- Define research goals informed by practical engineering concerns.
- Adapt standard machine learning models and frameworks to robotics applications.
- Work with high-fidelity simulation platforms for synthetic data generation.
- Develop sim2real and teleoperation pipelines for diverse tasks.
- Design data loading and training pipelines for large scale foundation model training.
- Contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running model evaluations, and organizing results.
- Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts.
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