Research Scientist / Engineer

Your Mission

• Build and ship learning-based control systems that power humanoid robots in the real world
• Train and deploy policies using reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and multimodal foundation-model approaches with embodied perception
• Hack on simulation and real-world setups to close the sim-to-real gap and move faster from experiment to deployment
• Dig into the full robotics stack to chase down latency, bottlenecks, and weird failure modes
• Create intuitive teleoperation and human-in-the-loop tools to accelerate data collection and evaluation
• Work side-by-side with a small team of engineers and scientists who care about moving fast and building things that last

What You Bring To The Table

• A strong drive to get humanoid robots working in the messy real world—not just in papers or demos
• Ability to take full ownership: spotting problems, proposing solutions, and pushing them through to deployment
• Solid experience with machine learning for robotics (RL, IL, VLA, or related), plus comfort jumping between code, data, and hardware
• Production-level Python or C++ skills
• 3/5+ years of hands-on contributions in robotics, ML, or similar—whether from industry projects, research labs, or your own builds
• Care for detail: clean code, reliable experiments, and datasets that don’t crumble under pressure
• Bonus: you’ve tinkered with humanoids before

UMA is an inclusive workplace that values exceptional builders over perfect pedigrees. Whatever your background, identity, or journey, if you don't meet every criterion but believe you can have an outsized impact here, we strongly encourage you to apply