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Research Scientist / Engineer

UMA
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Paris, France€0Full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Research Scientist / Engineer at UMA (uma.bot) focusing on learning-based control systems for humanoid robots, with emphasis on reinforcement learning, imitation learning, multimodal foundation models, sim-to-real, and human-in-the-loop tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship learning-based control systems that power humanoid robots in the real world
  • Train and deploy policies using reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and multimodal foundation-model approaches with embodied perception
  • Hack on simulation and real-world setups to close the sim-to-real gap and move faster from experiment to deployment
  • Dig into the full robotics stack to chase down latency, bottlenecks, and weird failure modes
  • Create intuitive teleoperation and human-in-the-loop tools to accelerate data collection and evaluation
  • Work side-by-side with a small team of engineers and scientists who care about moving fast and building things that last

Qualifications

  • A strong drive to get humanoid robots working in the messy real world—not just in papers or demos
  • Ability to take full ownership: spotting problems, proposing solutions, and pushing them through to deployment
  • Solid experience with machine learning for robotics (RL, IL, VLA, or related), plus comfort jumping between code, data, and hardware
  • Production-level Python or C++ skills
  • 3/5+ years of hands-on contributions in robotics, ML, or similar—whether from industry projects, research labs, or your own builds
  • Care for detail: clean code, reliable experiments, and datasets that don’t crumble under pressure
  • Bonus: you’ve tinkered with humanoids before

Skills

Required:Reinforcement learningImitation learningEmbodied perceptionPythonC++
Nice to have:Multimodal foundation-model approaches
Last updated Jul 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About UMA

UMA - Building intelligent robots that enhance quality of life for everyone

At UMA, we develop AI and robotics dedicated to shaping a new economic and societal era. We design general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots with human-level dexterity and a deep understanding of the physical world.

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