# Senior Research Scientist, Robot Learning at Hub

- Company: Hub (YC P26)
- What the company does: Real-world training data for frontier AI labs and robotics. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://hub.xyz
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US / Toulouse, France
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $120K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Apply by: 2026-12-20
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hub/jobs/dlWf9Oz-senior-research-scientist-robot-learning?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hub-senior-research-scientist-robot-learning/

## About the role

You build the scientific program of Hub Labs with Guillaume. You start from what actually goes wrong when robots run, turn it into falsifiable questions and answer them with rigorous experiments. This role keeps real research capacity: time to think, design studies and publish, alongside hands-on work on physical robots. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- A PhD in machine learning, robotics or a related field, followed by several years of research in academia or an industrial lab
- Research depth in robot learning: publications at venues such as CoRL, RSS, ICRA, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR or CVPR
- Practical robot-learning evidence: policies you trained and evaluated on real robots, not only in simulation
- Experience in areas such as imitation learning, VLAs, world models, RL, human-to-robot transfer or learning from video
- A track record of experimental rigour and of working closely with engineers
- Fluent English, written and spoken

Tags: Engineering

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