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AI Research Scientist, Robotics - Meta Superintelligence Labs

Meta· Artificial Intelligence
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Menlo Park, CA$122k - $181kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

AI Research Scientist specializing in robotics and embodied AI at Meta Superintelligence Labs, focusing on transfer learning, learning from demonstration, reinforcement learning, action-conditioned world models, perception, representation learning, robot control, navigation, mobile/dexterous manipulation, and vision-language models; expected to produce open science to enhance embodied agents.

Responsibilities

  • Perform fundamental and applied research to push the scientific and technological frontiers of embodied artificial intelligence.
  • Invent/improve novel data-driven paradigms for robotics, leveraging a variety of modalities (images, video, text, audio, tactile, etc).
  • Investigate paradigms delivering embodied behaviors from simulated characters to real robots, and from short-horizon, low-level to long-horizon, high-level intelligence.
  • Develop algorithms based on state-of-the-art machine learning and neural network methodologies.
  • Define, build and benchmark new capabilities needed for the next generation of AI.
  • Conduct research towards long-term research goals while identifying intermediate milestones.
  • Execute novel research based on long-term objectives of the organization.

Qualifications

  • Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
  • Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Language, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience in relevant robotics research areas such as: robot learning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, action-conditioned world models, task and motion planning, sim-to-real transfer, robotic control, dexterous manipulation, navigation, vision language models, or generally embodied AI
  • Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Skills

Required:Bachelor's or higher in a technical field or equivalent practical experienceRobotics and embodied AI researchMachine learning and deep learningPythonPyTorch or TensorFlow
Nice to have:PhD in AI/Robotics/ML/Computer Vision or related field (preferred)ROS and robotics frameworksSimulation and real-world robotics

Benefits

  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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