Applied Scientist Lead (Robotics), EMEA

MistralAmsterdamRemoteFull-time2 days ago

Mistral AI is seeking a Lead/Staff Applied Scientist to lead robotics research and industrial collaborations in the Applied Science team. The role involves setting technical direction for robotics, designing and deploying state-of-the-art VLM and VLA models, and building a team of scientists and engineers. Requires expertise in PyTorch or JAX, deep experience with vision-language models and robotics, and strong leadership skills.

What you'll do

Set the technical direction for robotics in Applied Science: which problems, models, data, and benchmarks we invest in.
Lead the technical execution of high-stakes robotics projects with customers and partners, from scoping to deployment.
Build and mentor a team of robotics Applied Scientists and Research Engineers.
Run pre-training, post-training and deploy state of the art models on clusters with thousands of GPUs.
Own the data strategy: generate and curate datasets (image-text, video-text, teleoperation, simulation), and build evaluators/benchmarks for perception, navigation and manipulation tasks.
Develop the necessary tools and frameworks to facilitate data generation, model training, evaluation and deployment.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex use cases.
Manage research projects and communications with client research teams, and engage senior stakeholders.

What you need

Must-have

PyTorchJAXVision Language Models (VLM)Vision-Language-Action (VLA) modelsPerceptionNavigationManipulationSimulation tools (e.g. Isaac SIM)Python

Nice-to-have

Sim-to-real transferWorld modelsLarge-scale robot data collectionLarge code basesLarge machine learning models at scaleOpen-source contributionsPublicationsTyping

Soft skills

CommunicationLeadershipCollaborationLow-egoEager to learnIndependentNavigates uncertainty

RoboticsApplied ScienceAIMachine LearningVLMVLAPyTorchJAXLeadershipRemote

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