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Robotics Applied Scientist, Spatio-Temporal Scene Understanding and Memory

Applied scientist role on robot world models and mission memory at a small robotics engineering company in Irvine, United States.

About the role

A role like this is open right now in Irvine, at a small robotics engineering company. You will research and build persistent spatio-temporal mission memory and world models that help robots track changes across sites and reason over what they have seen before.

What you'll do

  • Research and build persistent spatio-temporal mission memory for robots
  • Develop world models that track changes across sites over time
  • Enable robots to reason and plan over past observations
  • Combine learned and physics-grounded methods
  • Use interaction to recover physical parameters and support physics-aware digital twins and long-term autonomy

What you bring

  • Applied research experience in robotics, scene understanding or world modelling
  • Working knowledge of learned methods alongside physics-grounded approaches
  • Interest in long-term autonomy and digital twins
  • Ability to turn research ideas into systems that run on robots

Details

  • Location: Irvine, United States
  • Type: Full-time

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