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Robotics Applied Scientist, Spatio-Temporal Scene Understanding & Memory

FieldAI· Engineering – Mission, Interaction & Intelligence
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Irvine, CAFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Robotics Applied Scientist focused on spatio-temporal scene understanding and memory, developing persistent world models for long-term autonomy and field deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Investigate the appropriate representation for the robot's mission memory: a persistent spatio-temporal representation of what it saw, where, when, and how it changed, across missions and sites, so assets that move, disappear, or degrade are tracked rather than rediscovered.
  • Build world models that let the robot reason and plan over that memory and recover physical parameters through interaction for physics-aware digital twins.
  • Combine learned and physically grounded models, with geometry and dynamics as the ground truth.
  • Bridge the perception-reasoning gap for long-term autonomy.

Qualifications

  • PhD in robotics, computer science, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field, with publications at top venues such as RSS, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, T-FR, T-RO, CVPR, NeurIPS, or similar, on scene understanding, semantic SLAM, lifelong or spatio-temporal mapping, world models, or embodied reasoning.
  • Hands-on experience with vision-language or foundation models applied to spatial reasoning, memory, or long-horizon embodied question answering.
  • Depth in 3D representations: scene graphs, neural or Gaussian-splat maps, or object-centric maps, and the estimation underneath them.
  • Strong Python; able to run your methods on real robots with C++ and ROS 2.
  • Clear thinking about what a representation is for and how to evaluate it, and comfort with a fast-paced environment where research questions are set by what the next deployment needs.

Skills

Required:PhD-level research in robotics or related fieldVision-language or foundation models for spatial reasoning3D representationsProgramming and robotics stackRepresentation evaluation
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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