Research Scientist, Autonomous Systems and Physical AI Research - PhD New College Grad 2026

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing cutting-edge techniques for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and physical AI.
• Conducting original research and publishing your results.
• Collaborating with research colleagues, internal product teams, and external researchers.
• Transferring technology you’ve developed to relevant product groups.
• What we need to see
• Completing or recently completed a PhD in 2026 in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Relevant research experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, embodied AI, or autonomous systems.
• Strong knowledge of the theory and practice of vehicle or robot autonomy—or expertise in a related area, with a strong interest in applying your work to autonomous systems.
• A track record of research excellence, demonstrated through publications at leading conferences and journals—such as RSS, ICRA, CoRL, IJRR, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, TAC, etc.—and through other research artifacts such as open-source software.
• Exceptional Python programming skills; experience with C++ and parallel programming, such as CUDA, is a plus.

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