Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Models is open at Mindrobotics in Palo Alto. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $172K. Posted on Jan 26, 2026, and still on Mindrobotics’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We train robot foundation models that learn how the physical world behaves from large volumes of video and human demonstration, learn actions from teleoperation and on-robot data, and then adapt to specific stations on the line. You'll design and run that training, and you'll watch your models run on our robots in a production factory. This is a research role with a production bar. Many of our open questions are…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Mindrobotics’s careers page.
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