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Research Scientist, VLA Models - Atlas

Boston Dynamics is hiring for Research Scientist, VLA Models - Atlas in Waltham Office (POST). Senior level, $177k–$225k a year stated. First seen November 5, 2026; open as of November 12, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Boston Dynamics
Where
Waltham Office (POST)
Level
Senior
Pay stated
$177k–$225k a year
First seen
November 5, 2026
Listed via
Workday

What the posting says

As a VLA Research Scientist on the Atlas team, you will architect, train, and deploy the large-scale behavior models that enable high-performance dexterous manipulation on Atlas. Your work will focus on building models that take multimodal input (vision, language, tactile sensing, task context, robot state), and produce grounded actions that generalize across manipulation tasks, embodiments, and environments. You will design large-scale behavior cloning and imitation learning pipelines, and integrate learned components into a complex, real-world robotic system. You’ll collaborate closely…

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