AI Research Scientist (Robot Learning)

Mimic is an early stage deep tech robotics & AI start-up based in San Francisco & Zurich, supported by leading VCs. The AI Research Engineer (Robot Learning) will drive frontier AI model development and manage data flywheel projects for dexterous robotic manipulation, shaping all aspects of end-to-end AI model development.

Responsibilities:

• Drive research and implementation for large scale, multi-task foundation AI models for robotics, quickly iterate over architecture design and parameters
• Oversee model specialization for end use cases with fine-tuning and other post-training techniques
• Drive the implementation and management of the data flywheel process, from data specification, to data collection, model training and real world evals
• Write clean, maintainable python code using deep learning frameworks
• Work closely with the Robotics and Hardware teams to ensure efficient and stable deployment on real world robots