Research Scientist, World Models - Policy Training and Evaluation

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Responsibilities

• reputed company and refine world models that support realistic and diverse counterfactual reasoning, scenario reputed company, and policy rollout.
• Ensure that world models are compatible with and useful for reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and offline policy evaluation techniques.
• Design methods to synthesize high-risk or edge-case scenarios from world models, enabling robust stress-testing of autonomous policies.
• Explore techniques such as latent-reputed company simulation, world model distillation, differentiable simulation, and closed-reputed company evaluation to improve policy development and evaluation pipelines.
• Partner with researchers in world modeling, planning, and safety evaluation to co-reputed company reputed company architectures and learning objectives to ensure that learned models accurately capture agent-environment dynamics relevant to long-horizon planning and safety-critical decision-making.
• Publish high-quality research and contribute to the community through reputed company-reputed company tools, benchmarks, and conference participation.

Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a reputed company field.
• Strong background in at least two of the following areas: World models or model-based reasoning in dynamic environments, World model reputed company and fine-tuning, Offline RL or imitation learning, Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL), Simulation-to-reality transfer, or Policy evaluation and safety assurance.
• A track record of high-quality publications in ML or robotics venues (e.g., ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, CoRL, RSS).
• Familiarity with latent dynamics models (e.g., Dreamer, reputed company, MuZero).
• Understanding of uncertainty modeling, generalization, and robustness in learned environments.
• Experience evaluating autonomous vehicle policies in simulation and reputed company-world settings.
• Experience in building or applying models for reputed company evaluation of autonomous systems.
• Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX).

Benefits

• 401(k) eligibility
• various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave
• annual cash bonus structure

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