Remote VP of Robotics Research | Flexible Hourly/Annual Role

RemoteWork Talent Agency has an immediate remote opening for a Remote VP of Robotics Research | Flexible Hourly/Annual Role earning $1,200,000 - $6,000,000/year. In this flexible work-from-home engagement (open to candidates in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, and Ireland), you will apply practical mastery of Robotics Software, Robotics Data, Robotics Research to stress-test large language models, verify factual rigor, and build gold-standard evaluation datasets.

Key Duties & Project Scope

• Evaluation & Generalization — developing rigorous methods to measure physical reasoning, manipulation, planning, robustness, safety, and transfer across tasks and environments.
• Physical-World R&D Automation — exploring how agents can accelerate scientific and engineering workflows through simulation, experimentation, design, fabrication, and real-world tools.
• Set the Physical AI research agenda. Identify the highest-leverage problems across robotics, embodied agents, learning, data, evaluation, and physical-world automation.
• Build agents that act in the physical world. Develop systems that connect foundation models and agents to robots, machines, instruments, and other physical interfaces.
• Advance general-purpose robot learning. Lead research across vision-language-action models, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, world models, and multimodal policies.
• Develop a science of physical-world data. Study which demonstrations, trajectories, sensor streams, environments, and supervision signals best improve learning and generalization.
• Build scalable data-generation systems. Develop methods for generating high-quality interaction data through human demonstration, teleoperation, autonomous rollout, simulation, and hybrid human–agent workflows.

Candidate Requirements

• Technical range. You are comfortable moving between model training, agent design, simulation, evaluation infrastructure, and physical experimentation.
• Research leadership. You have experience setting direction, mentoring exceptional technical talent, and leading ambitious research programs under uncertainty.
• Master’s or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Engineering, or a related field.
• Research experience at a leading AI, robotics, or embodied intelligence organization.
• Strong publication record at venues such as CoRL, RSS, ICRA, IROS, NeurIPS, ICML, or CVPR, or equivalent high-impact technical work.
• Practical background using generalist robot policies, cross-embodiment learning, robot foundation models, or large-scale imitation and reinforcement learning.
• Hands-on experience with robotic platforms and frameworks such as ROS/ROS2, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, ManiSkill, or equivalent systems.

Pay Rate & Contract Overview

• Compensation Rate: $1,200,000 - $6,000,000/year (contract specialist remuneration)
• Work Arrangement: 100% Remote / Work From Home
• Eligible Remote Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa
• Core Competencies: Robotics Software, Robotics Data, Robotics Research
• Hiring Agency: RemoteWork Talent Agency

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