Machine Learning Research Scientist, Mechanical Intuition In Multimodal Models

Toyota Research Institute (TRI)

Los Altos, CA, USA
On-site
Policy learning
Reinforcement learning
Physical reasoning
We’re developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience

Job Summary

  • We’re developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience.
  • The Future Factory team focuses on developing cutting-edge tools and methods to accelerate change and increase flexibility and efficiency in Toyota's product design and manufacturing.
  • As a researcher on the team, you will design and implement learning pipelines from scratch, run experiments to evaluate a wide range of architectural, data, and algorithmic choices, and help shape how we apply modern machine learning to the challenges of robotic assembly.

Matching Summary

We’re developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • policy learning
  • reinforcement learning
  • physical reasoning
  • large language models
  • agentic infrastructure
  • implement learning pipelines from scratch

Nice-to-have

  • genuine curiosity about how things are made
  • advancing the state of the art
  • transformative shift in mobility

Key Requirements

  • recent PhD graduate
  • strong implementation track record

Work Rights

Not specified

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