Senior Research Engineer, Mechanical Intuition in Multimodal Models

Toyota Research Institute
Los Altos, CA / Cambridge, MA2026-04-02Full-time

About the job

We are looking for a Senior Research Engineer to join us in building the systems and tools that power our research on physical AI. This role is well-suited for someone with a strong software engineering foundation, deep experience working with geometry or physical modeling, and a genuine interest in how things are made.

Responsibilities

design and build the pipelines and tooling that allow researchers to move fast and measure what matters — from large-scale training and evaluation infrastructure to the geometry processing and physics-aware components at the core of our models. You will work at the intersection of software engineering and research, translating emerging ideas into robust, production-quality implementations.

Qualifications

Minimum

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Preferred

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