Research Scientist, Generalist Embodied Agent Research - PhD New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA is searching for an outstanding research scientist to build humanoid robot foundation models and systems in the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group. Everything that moves will eventually be autonomous. Our mission is to build general-purpose embodied agents that learn to explore and master complex skills across the virtual and the physical world.


You will work with an amazing and collaborative research team that consistently produces influential works on multimodal foundation models, large-scale robot learning, game AI, and physical simulation. Our past projects include Eureka (https://voyager.minedojo.org/) , VIMA (https://vimalabs.github.io/) , Voyager (https://mimic-play.github.io/) , MineDojo (http://minedojo.org/) , MimicPlay (https://eureka-research.github.io/) , Prismer (https://github.com/NVlabs/prismer) , and more. One of our team’s most recent milestones includes Project GR00T (https://developer.nvidia.com/project-gr00t) , a foundation model ...