Microsoft Senior Researcher - Embodied AI/Robotics Microsoft Research 

United States, Washington 

689917912

helpful and safe part of everydayreality. As a member of ourcollaborations, you will do ground-breaking research at the junctiondecision-making (imitation learning, RL,and large multimodal modelto enable robotto actand learnrobustly in weakly structured environments.

Required qualifications

• PhD inAI/ML, physics,statistics,mechanical engineering, or closely related areas.

• track recordof research publications,open-source softwarereleases, andother scientific activities.

• expertisewith deep learning frameworks such asPyTorchand strong Python programming skills.

Other Requirements:

As a part of you application, please submit the following materials as attachments:

• Your CV.

• Twoconference,journal, orarXivarticles, book chapters, or equivalent writing samples that best demonstrate your expertise.

• The names of two references.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with at least one project with a publicly available codebase where the candidatehas contributed toLLM/VLM/VLApre- or post-training.

• At least one top-tier-venue publication with empirical evaluation doneby the candidateonphysical robothardware

• Experience with at least one project with a publicly available codebase where the candidate has contributed toimplementing an imitationlearning, RL, or planning approach.

• Experience withMuJoCo or a PhysX-based simulation toolkit such asIsaacSim

• ,communicate effectively,

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• onduct research inmultimodal model trainingandinferenceas well asdata-efficient learning for decision makingtoadvance state of the art inmobilerobotic manipulation.

• Build proofs of concept thatdemonstratethe effectiveness of your approaches on physical robot

• Actively contribute toteamprojectsas well ascollaborations with Microsoft-internal and external partners

• Engage inopenresearch activities, includingpublishingyourresearch findings