Research Scientist
About the role
Research Scientist role at Ultra focused on bridging robot foundation models and production deployment, with emphasis on fast learning, robustness, and real-world applicability in industrial robotics.
Responsibilities
- Improve our robots’ ability to quickly learn new tasks and to execute those tasks quickly and reliably
- Lead research efforts around improving our models’ robustness and performance for real world tasks
- Integrate trained models with our production robotics stack and work with deployment teams to scale models across real customer sites
Qualifications
- Experience with fine-tuning large models for downstream tasks (IL, RL, etc.)
- Operate with high agency and are able to own significant research efforts end to end
- Care deeply about evaluation, benchmarking, and failure analysis
- A generalist who enjoys getting your hands dirty across the whole stack ML stack
- Passionate about seeing robots make an impact in the real world
Skills
About Ultra
Practical, general-purpose robots for repetitive industrial tasks
Ultra builds practical, general-purpose robots that are deploying—and producing ROI—today. Unlike traditional industrial automation that’s rigid and complex, our robots are zero integration (able to be installed in hours, not weeks) and are highly flexible, capable of quickly learning new tasks and delivering immediate value to customers. Founded by a team of three-time entrepreneurs with a decade of collaboration, Ultra moves fast. We already have robots in the field generating revenue and data, with plans to rapidly scale deployments this year.
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