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Founding Research Scientist – Physical AI
What would you research if you could help set the agenda from day one?
This is a founding opportunity at an ambitious UK Physical AI startup, working on the models that will enable robots to understand, learn and act in the real world.
You’ll have the freedom to pursue difficult research problems, test ideas on real robotic hardware and turn promising research into technology that actually works.
What’s in it for you?
- Founding role with significant equity
- Define the research roadmap rather than inherit one
- Work at the frontier of robot learning, VLA and world models
- Run experiments on real robots
- Publish meaningful research while building real-world technology
- Work closely with a small, highly technical founding team
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You’ll:
- Lead research across robot learning, world models and VLA systems
- Develop new approaches to model training and data collection
- Design evaluation methods for Physical AI
- Take ideas from paper and prototype through to real robotic experiments
- Publish results and help establish the company’s research direction
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What you’ll bring
- Research experience across ML, robotics or computer vision
- Strong knowledge of modern deep learning
- Excellent mathematical and experimental instincts
- Experience training and evaluating ML models
- The curiosity to explore ideas where the answers aren’t obvious
Publications, benchmarks and open-source contributions are valuable, but they’re not the deciding factor. The quality of your research thinking is.
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