Redefining Robotic Intelligence. Backed by Khosla.
About the role
Research and implement model compression techniques: quantization, pruning, structured sparsity, distillation, and low-rank approximation Design efficient architectures and attention mechanisms suited to real-time inference on edge and robot hardware
What they're looking for
- Strong understanding of model compression and efficient architectures for large models
- Hands-on experience with quantization, distillation, or pruning applied to transformers or large neural networks
- Deep knowledge of where efficiency gains are possible in modern architectures
- Proficiency with PyTorch and familiarity with hardware-aware optimization (CUDA, TensorRT, or similar)
- Ability to run principled experiments that characterize capability-efficiency tradeoffs
- PhD in ML, CS, or a related field — or equivalent research/engineering experience
More about this role
At Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.
We're looking for a Research Scientist or Research Engineer focused on model efficiency — making our foundation world models faster, smaller, and more deployable without sacrificing capability. This work is critical to closing the gap between research-scale models and real-time operation on robot hardware.
Research and implement model compression techniques: quantization, pruning, structured sparsity, distillation, and low-rank approximation
Design efficient architectures and attention mechanisms suited to real-time inference on edge and robot...
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