Tech Lead, AI Research Scientist (Robotics)

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Salary

$219K-$301K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

123% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Tech Lead, AI Research Scientist (Robotics) Menlo Park, CA Meta is seeking an AI Research Scientist to join Meta Superintelligence Labs. Individuals in this role are expected to be recognized experts in identified research areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and embodied AI, particularly including areas such as transfer learning, learning from demonstration, reinforcement learning, action-conditioned world models, perception, representation learning, robot control, navigation, mobile manipulation, dexterous manipulation, and vision-language models. You should have a keen interest in producing new, open science to make embodied agents more intelligent. Responsibilities: - Perform fundamental and applied research to push the scientific and technological frontiers of embodied artificial intelligence - Invent/improve novel data-driven paradigms for robotics, leveraging a variety of modalities (images, video, text, audio, tactile, etc) - Investigate paradigms that can deliver a spectrum of embodied behaviors - from simulated characters to real robots, and from short-horizon, low-level to long-horizon, high-level intelligence - Develop algorithms based on state-of-the-art machine learning and neural network methodologies - Define, build and benchmark new capabilities needed for the next generation of AI - Conduct research towards long-term research goals while identifying intermediate milestones - Lead, plan, and execute novel research based on long-term objectives of the organization - Set research strategy and direction, and provide mentorship for a team of researchers Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience - PhD degree in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Language, a

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