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About the job

Pantograph is training general models that start by watching internet-scale video and end up on robots. We think the path to capable robots runs through general intelligence rather than narrow, robot-specific skills. We're scaling simple methods across video games, real-world video, and our own fleet of affordable, durable robots.

We're looking for research scientists who want to scale simple methods across the largest datasets available.

You might be a good fit if you:

  • Have experience with one or more of:
  • Large-scale pre-training (video, multimodal, image, or language)
  • Self-supervised, goal-conditioned, or unsupervised RL
  • Robotics models, especially those trained on large-scale data
  • Video generation or other large-scale sequence modeling over high-dimensional observations (e.g. pixels)
  • Have trained models on large GPU clusters and are comfortable working with Kubernetes
  • Believe simple methods that scale beat complicated ones that don't, and reach for the simplest thing that could work
  • Strive to find simple, expressive metrics and measure them accurately
  • Value scientific integrity and seek to understand the true effect of different interventions

Nice to have:

  • Experience with JAX
  • Interest in problems adjacent to the critical path — new modalities, alternatives to text for reasoning, pixel-space modeling, or automating research itself
  • A strong background in proof-based mathematics, including topics such as:
  • Measure-theoretic probability
  • Stochastic processes
  • Optimization theory

We care much more about what you can do than any specific credential. We're interested in published work or lab experience, but equally in strong open-source contributions or personal projects. If you're excited about scaling general models that learn from and act in the real world, we'd love to talk.

From Pantograph's careers page (Ashby), checked 12 Nov 2026.

How to apply

  1. Select Apply on pantograph.com. It opens Pantograph's own application form in a new tab, run on Ashby.
  2. Fill in the form and upload your résumé there. Jobiwork never sees your application.
  3. Pantograph will reply to you directly. No real employer asks you for money to apply.

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