Physical AI Researcher

Feather Robotics is hiring a Physical AI Researcher to advance reliable, data-efficient manipulation and bring Physical AI closer to commercial deployment. The role focuses on developing and deploying models for general-purpose robots, integrating perception, control, and cognition, and improving real-world robustness.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, train, and deploy machine learning models for general-purpose robots
• Implement and optimize algorithms in areas such as imitation learning, RL, diffusion policies, VLA, and navigation
• Collaborate with robotics engineers to integrate perception, control, and cognition into a unified system
• Conduct applied research that pushes Physical AI forward, with an emphasis on commercial viability
• Analyze performance, debug complex behaviors, and continuously improve model robustness in the real world