Founding Research Scientist, Robot Learning
GRAM, San Francisco Bay Area, California +1
About the job
The Mission
GRAM is a self replication company creating populations of insectoids for the physical economy.
Our first research frontier is self-preservation: the base case of physical self-replication. Our machines will survive, coordinate, and recover without humans. We believe scalable machine labor requires more than single-agent task generality or machines shaped in our image.
About the role
GRAM is building reusable embodied intelligence that transfers across embodiments, tasks, environments, tools, and team configurations. The work must remain grounded in data, compute, runtime constraints, and repeatable physical evaluation.
You will be the accountable owner of GRAM's robot-learning research agenda. You will set technical direction and evaluation standards, make architecture, data, and compute tradeoffs directly with the founders, and shape the hiring standard and mentor the team as the program grows. You will develop general representations, models, policies, training methods, and evaluations for individual and coordinated physical behavior. Success means measured transfer to physical systems, not breadth asserted from a benchmark.