Applied Researcher is open at Physical Intelligence in San Francisco. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $182K. Posted on Jan 23, 2026, and still on Physical Intelligence’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
You Will - Deploy and debug learned policies on physical robots, diagnosing failures across the full stack (perception, policy, control, hardware). - Train and tune policies, curate data, and iterate to improve real-world performance. - Write production-quality code that interfaces with Pi’s infrastructure. - Work with operators to set up tests, evals, and data collection pipelines. - Engage with partners to…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Physical Intelligence’s careers page.
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