# Research Scientist: Pretraining at Generalist AI

- Company: Generalist AI
- What the company does: Backed by Norwest and USV.
- Company website: https://generalistai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) or Boston (Somerville)
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $240K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/generalist/9871bd5a-6c1a-40b3-98cb-62d38b61a3fe
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/generalist-ai-research-scientist-pretraining/

## About the role

You will build the base intelligence layer for robotics. We train large-scale robot foundation models from massive multimodal datasets spanning video, proprioception, action traces, language, and more. You will design and run the core large-scale training efforts that give our models fundamentally new general capabilities across embodiments, tasks, and environments. You will “live and breathe” all forms of robot data.

Tags: Technical Staff