What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Research Scientist position at Boston Dynamics?
As a Research Scientist on the Atlas Perception team, you will play a key role in solving challenging perception and machine learning problems for the most advanced humanoid platform in the world. You will join a world-class research team working on scene understanding, object manipulation, and vision foundation models. As a leader in the field you will shape novel machine learning techniques to expand the ability for Atlas to effectively interact with the world.
How You Will Make An Impact
How You Will Make An Impact
- Identify, propose, and lead research projects solving real problems using machine learning
- Creatively combine state-of-the-art open-source models and in-house data to advance the robot capabilities
- Write high-quality (documented, tested, maintainable) Python and C code in a large shared codebase
- Regularly present your research within the Atlas team and in wider company meetings
- Collaborate with controls, planning, software and hardware teams to test and integrate your ideas on Atlas
- Strong ML / Computer Vision / Computer Graphics research background
- Track record of published peer-reviewed research in topics such as:
- Learned 3D reconstruction, depth prediction, feature matching, semantic segmentation, object 6-DoF pose and shape estimation
- Vision-language models
- Multimodal perception with vision/proprioception/touch sensing
- Learned visual representations and foundation models for robot manipulation
- Proficiency in Python programming and popular ML frameworks
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Graphics or a related field
- Hands-on robotics experience
- Practical knowledge of 3D geometry, projective geometry, camera models
- Competent with C programming