AI Scientist - Robotics

Mistral AI Mistral AI · AI Frontier · Paris, France · Research

Research and develop novel AI methods for general-purpose mobile manipulation robots, build tooling and infrastructure for training, evaluation, and analysis of AI models at scale, and work cross-functionally to deploy AI systems on real robot platforms. Requires hands-on experience building/deploying AI on physical robots or developing large vision-language models, strong software engineering skills, and AI framework proficiency.

What you'd actually do

  1. Research and develop novel AI methods for general-purpose mobile manipulation robots
  2. Build tooling and infrastructure to allow training, evaluation and analysis of AI models at scale
  3. Work cross-functionally with other scientists, engineers and product teams to deploy AI systems on real robot platforms

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • AI frameworks
  • software engineering
  • AI systems on physical robots
  • large vision-language models

Nice to have

  • navigation
  • manipulation
  • simulators
  • 3D
  • embodied reasoning
  • vision-language-action models
  • fine-tuning
  • evaluation
  • deployment
  • publication record

What the JD emphasized

  • physical robots
  • vision-language models
  • production

Other signals

  • novel AI methods for general-purpose mobile manipulation robots
  • deploy AI systems on real robot platforms
  • building and deploying AI systems on physical robots
  • developing large vision-language models