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Research Scientist Intern, Robotics Foundation Models Mid-Training (PhD)

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Redmond, WA$7.7k/mo - $12.7k/moInternPosted 1w ago

About the role

Internship focusing on developing scalable mid-training methods for world action models (WAMs) and vision-language-action models (VLAs) for robotic manipulation, with emphasis on mid-training using large-scale egocentric video and robot data. Twelve to twenty-four weeks, various start dates.

Responsibilities

  • Develop scalable mid-training methods for WAMs using large-scale egocentric video and heterogeneous robot data.
  • Investigate representation and objective design for learning from human egocentric video.
  • Address challenges in training on web-scale, weakly-labeled data, including embodiment and viewpoint gaps, data curation and filtering, and domain mixture weighting.
  • Build efficient training and data pipelines, and study how downstream policy performance scales with dataset size, model capacity, and compute.
  • Design experiments and benchmarks to measure what mid-training contributes, isolating its effect on downstream post-training and generalization across tasks and embodiments.
  • Collaborate with research scientists and engineers to evaluate mid-trained models in simulation and on real robots.
  • Communicate research findings and publish results at leading machine learning, computer vision, and robotics venues.

Qualifications

  • Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, or a related STEM field
  • Research experience in training of video models or robotics foundation models
  • Experience implementing and training deep learning models using Python and PyTorch or a comparable framework
  • Experience designing controlled experiments, analyzing results, and debugging machine learning algorithms
  • Interpersonal experience: cross-group and cross-culture collaboration
  • Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Skills

Required:Ph.D. in relevant fieldVideo model trainingPythonPyTorch or similarExperiment design & analysisCross-group collaboration
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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