Research Scientist Action Foundation Model, Robotics

What the role actually is

Applied Intuition is hiring research scientists for its AI research group, with this posting focused on world-action foundation models for robotics. The team frames the work around next-generation physical AI, especially end-to-end autonomous driving and robotic generalists.

This is an in-office Sunnyvale research role. It is relevant to the board because the work is about how embodied systems represent the world, choose actions, and generalize across tasks.

• Research world-action model approaches for robots and autonomous systems
• Build experiments that connect model behavior to physical AI performance
• Work with a research group spanning robotics, autonomy, simulation, and data
• Turn research results into infrastructure that can support real robotic systems

• Research strength in machine learning, robotics, embodied AI, or foundation models
• Ability to design and evaluate experiments for action-generating systems
• Publication, implementation, or applied research evidence in relevant areas
• Comfort working in a highly technical in-office research environment

World models are becoming a central bet in robot learning. Applied's angle is worth tracking because it is trying to connect that research to infrastructure for moving machines, not only to a lab demo or a single robot form factor.