Head of Research

Who we are

Provision seeks to create a world of labor abundance through physical AI. Robotics will initiate a world of opulence in which the work we have long deferred finally gets done and services and tasks we never imagined become ordinary, at greater speed and scale. Our role in bringing this transformation into labor abundance is our edge in complex, scaled physical world services operations. That manifests as capturing immensely diverse, in the wild, high quality pre-training data, as well as every component of the stack in which there is a need for physical world complexity and a need for scale. This includes Physical world evals, multimodal collection, post training, as well as deployments.

Our operating principles are as follows:

1. Integrity. It is our firm conviction that trust and integrity are powerful economic forces, in their ability to reduce transaction costs and correct for information asymmetries.

2. Velocity of action. Acceleration creates a compounding competitive advantage.

3. Ownership. We believe in having an internal locus of control, and accepting responsibility for all outputs one has supervision and influence over.

What is the role

You will head the robotics research division and direction of Provision. This role is suited for someone who is a a highly technical, a prime mover, and seeking to drive the organization. You must an interest in the entirety of the robotics stack, including data, evaluations, hardware, and policies as opposed to a single, atomized vertical.

The role
The head of research is the individual who will establish the future of the technical components of the business. This must be someone who is a prime mover and is interested in shaping a malleable industry, as well as building Provision as an organization. They must have an interest across the entirety of the robotics stack, including operations, collection, hardware, annotation, evaluations, and models, as opposed to a single atomized vertical.

What they'll do

• Set the technical direction of the company and decide where research effort goes across the full stack
• Build and manage a large group of highly sophisticated, technical individuals.
• Work closely with the data, hardware, and operations teams so that research priorities and collection priorities move together
• Represent the technical vision of the company to external stakeholders, including partners, customers, labs, and investors

Requirements

• PhD in robotics, machine learning, computer vision, or a related field
• Industry experience at a robotics company or research lab
• Hands-on experience training and deploying manipulation policies, such as diffusion policies, vision-language-action models, or world action models.