About the Position

Research Scientist

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Location Type: Hybrid

About the Company

At Nomagic, we are on a mission to develop general-purpose physical AI by leveraging real-world robotic data. We believe that physical AI is fundamentally a knowledge transfer problem, and we are leveraging massive deployment logs from production environments to bootstrap our efforts. Join us as we bridge the gap between world-class ML research and industrial-scale robotic execution.

Responsibilities

Your role will be at the intersection of machine learning research, robotics, and large-scale multimodal model training. You will focus on two main pillars: Pretraining and Post-training.

Pretraining

Design the Base Intelligence: Define model architectures (Transformer- and Diffusion-based), objectives, and training curricula across multimodal robotic data, turning raw deployment logs into generalizable capabilities.
Master the Data: Develop scalable data mixtures and sampling strategies utilizing our massive offline repositories of vision, action, and state data.
Push the Frontier: Run rigorous ablations to understand scaling laws, data quality effects, optimization dynamics, and large-model failure modes.
Scale with Engineering: Collaborate closely with ML Infra to push cluster utilization and throughput, ensuring our algorithmic ideas translate to efficient distributed training.

Post-training

Drive Downstream Adaptation: Explore fine-tuning recipes to make general models – our own as well as our partner’s models – useful, controllable, and safe in the real world using imitation and reinforcement learning, distillation, and curriculum learning.
Improve Physical Robustness: Develop cutting-edge methods for improving real-world reliability, handling out-of-distribution edge cases, and steering robot behavior in mature factory environments.
Build Benchmarks: Design evaluation frameworks and lightweight physical setups that measure actual robot performance and failure modes far beyond the limits of simulation.
Close the Physical Loop: Analyze real-world evaluation results to guide the overarching research direction, seamlessly bridging the gap between foundation model outputs and physical-world outcomes.

Requirements

Experience: Deep research and practical experience at the intersection of machine learning, systems engineering, and physical robotics.
Proven Track Record: Experience designing, training, and fine-tuning large-scale deep learning architectures (VLMs, VLAs, RL, RLHF, Imitation Learning), ideally with policies deployed and validated on real hardware.
Engineering Excellence: Strong deep learning framework fundamentals (PyTorch/JAX). Comfortable debugging at every layer of the stack and cares about empirical rigor as much as raw iteration speed.
Robotics Intuition: Comfort working hands-on with hardware. Understands the robotics full stack (perception, controls, state estimation) and cares deeply about evaluation and failure analysis when software meets the physical world.
Pragmatic Research Mindset: Ability to move seamlessly between theoretical design and physical implementation. Prefers execution, rapid iteration loops, and real-world robustness over academic purity.

What We Offer

Play with real robots, solving real problems, every day.
Relocation package.
Flexible working hours.
English-speaking environment.

Why Join Us?

We combine world-class research with top-notch engineering and apply it to solve real problems.
Much of this data already exists. We have robots in production at scale. We aren't waiting for datasets to be collected; the byproduct of our machines doing useful work is being created right now.
We measure what matters. We test our code in unit tests, simulations, and directly on real robots. Grounding our models in deployment allows us to truly measure performance, not just offline metrics.
High leverage, high impact. We’re still a highly focused team. If your architectures and training curricula improve our agents, you directly change the economics of the company.
World-class peers. Our team has built Google Warsaw, unicorn startups, led research in DeepMind, tested rocket engines, and worked at top companies like Nvidia and ByteDance. Now, we are shaping the reality of Physical AI together.
We are building the bridge. We aren't a new startup looking for an application; we are an established player bootstrapping physical AI. We believe this will be the first true proof-of-concept for scaled physical AI.

Application Process

A phone screen with the hiring manager to discuss your background and our technical direction.
A half-day of on-sites (cultural fit & deep-dive technical interviews).
A final decision made within 2-3 days after the on-site interview.
Important: Expect detailed, honest feedback after completing the process, regardless of our decision.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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