Predoctoral Young Investigator, Robotics

Compensation

Compensation Range: $113,300

Ai2’s Robotics team seeks a creative, early career Predoctoral Young Investigator who has a strong interest in language‑model based artificial intelligence and natural language processing. Predoctoral Young Investigator (PYI) candidates have graduated with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field and are preparing to enter a Ph.D. program in the next 1–3 years. We also welcome applications from candidates already enrolled in a Ph.D. program who wish to align their work with Ai2’s endeavors.

• Duration: 1–3 years
• Start date:
  
  Flexible

• Investigate the scaling and generalization properties of foundation models for robotics, and contribute to developing broadly competent robots that can operate in the real world.
• Develop agents that manipulate objects, follow instructions, and acquire new skills across diverse tasks in both simulation and on real robot hardware.
• Build and leverage scalable, GPU‑accelerated simulation environments for large‑scale training, and develop pipelines that transfer learned policies reliably to real‑world robots.
• Contribute to open‑source research, including methods, datasets, benchmarks, and tools that enable rigorous, reproducible, and distributed experimentation.
• Co‑author papers with Ai2 researchers and get published in top venues.
• Gain industry experience in a supportive, agile, mission‑driven environment.

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field with a desire to enter a Ph.D. program in the next 1–3 years, or currently enrolled in a related Ph.D. program.

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.
• Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand.
• Ability to observe details at close range.
• Can work under deadlines.

• Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, and an employee assistance program.
• Team members are able to enroll in health savings account, healthcare reimbursement arrangement, and health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• Team members are able to enroll in the company’s 401(k) plan.
• Team members will receive $125 per month for commuting or internet expenses and $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and 12 paid holidays per year.

Ai2 is a proud Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and to supporting applicants with disabilities.