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Senior AI Researcher
Scout AI
Napi Headquarters, USA
Senior · 8+ years experience
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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Responsibilities
- Conduct original research in embodied AI, including learning from warfighter demonstration, reinforcement learning, memory, reward, vision-language modeling, and world modeling
- Build, test, and benchmark large-scale models for perception, decision-making, and control in simulated and physical environments
- Investigate transfer learning and continual learning paradigms across diverse robotic domains
- Collaborate with engineering, robotics, and field teams to integrate research into operational systems
- Lead research strategy and roadmap across key areas of autonomy and machine learning
- Support field tests and data collection campaigns to evaluate system performance in realistic environments
Qualifications
- PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field plus 4+ years of applied research experience (industry, postdoc, or lab), or 8+ years of equivalent industry research experience without a PhD
- Strong publication record in top-tier venues
- Deep expertise in one or more of the following: reinforcement learning, imitation learning, vision-language models, sim-to-real, world modeling, or agentic AI
- Hands-on experience building and evaluating models for embodied agents or autonomous systems
- Proficiency in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
- Experience working with large-scale datasets and high-dimensional sensor inputs
- Demonstrated ability to take ideas from research concept to deployed prototype
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
- Passion about defense of the United States and its allies
- May be expected to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance
- Why Join Scout
- Work on the world’s most important frontier, ensuring U.S. and allied dominance in the age of intelligent machines
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