Applied Scientist
San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) or Boston (Somerville)Full-timePosted today
About the role
Applied Scientists own the mastery of new frontier model capabilities, designing post-training recipes for learning dexterous tasks, evaluating across model variants, and driving the post-training loop to achieve robust, general, and reusable capabilities across applications in robotics and AI.
Responsibilities
- Owning end-to-end improvement of target capabilities, from baseline measurement to demonstrated mastery
- Designing task suites and evaluation protocols that faithfully capture what research, science partners, and customers need, and that generalize beyond any single deployment
- Coordinating data collection, training and fine-tuning models, sweeping data mixtures and configurations, and orchestrating large-scale evaluations
- Running rigorous experimental analysis across model variants — isolating variables, quantifying statistical confidence, and diagnosing failure modes from rollout data
Qualifications
- A strong background in machine learning and/or robot learning (e.g. a PhD in a relevant area)
- Comfortable with data analysis at scale: slicing rollout logs, computing metrics, visualizing results, and investigating what happened and why
- Care deeply about evaluation, benchmarking, and failure analysis
- Willing to get hands-on with robots and physical task setups when the experiment demands it
- Ability to communicate findings clearly to both research teams and partner-facing teams
Skills
Required:Data analysis at scaleEvaluation design and benchmarkingExperimentation and statistical analysisCommunication
Last updated Oct 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Generalist AI
Generalist is a frontier AI research and product driven company building general intelligence for the physical world.
Generalist AI: a frontier AI research and product driven company building general intelligence for the physical world.
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