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Research Scientist - Robot Learning (VLA / WAM)

SpAItial is hiring for Research Scientist - Robot Learning (VLA / WAM) in London. Mid level. First seen August 21, 2026; open as of November 12, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
SpAItial
Where
London
Level
Mid
First seen
August 21, 2026
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

We're seeking a Research Scientist to train the policies that turn a world model into a robot that acts. You will own vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action models (WAM) end to end, starting, including data, backbone, action representation, training runs, and the evaluation that tells us whether a policy is genuinely competent or merely lucky. A world model that understands geometry and physics still doesn't act on its own; the policy is what closes that gap. This is a senior, hands-on research role for someone who has already trained manipulation policies that worked, and who can say…

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