Technical Associate Robotics and Physical AI
MIT FutureTech is an interdisciplinary MIT research group studying technical and economic progress in computing and AI.
About MIT FutureTech
Based at MIT CSAIL, FutureTech researches how advances in computing and AI affect scientific progress, productivity, and economic prosperity. Its work combines computer science, economics, and management, and includes public AI-risk data resources and research outputs.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, run, and analyze robot-learning experiments, including fine-tuning, evaluation, and ablation studies. You will maintain reproducible evaluation pipelines, manage training and inference workloads, collect and document datasets, write research outputs, and help supervise undergraduate researchers.
Requirements
- BA or BS in computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, machine learning, or a related field
- Proficiency in Python and hands-on deep learning model training or fine-tuning
- Experience with MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, real robot data collection, or policy deployment
- Experience working on Linux compute clusters, including SLURM
- Ability to read and evaluate robot-learning papers independently
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills
Responsibilities
- Design, run, and analyze machine learning experiments on robot-learning models
- Build and maintain evaluation pipelines
- Manage training and inference workloads on high-performance computing resources
- Collect, clean, and document robot-platform and capability datasets
- Keep code and results reproducible in shared repositories
- Produce research visualizations and written analysis
- Contribute to grant proposals and research writing
- Prepare research documentation and track project metrics
- Co-supervise undergraduate researchers
- Collaborate with lab members and external partners
- Participate in lab meetings, workshops, and conferences
Hiring Process
Initial Zoom interview.
