Research Scientist: Hierarchical Sensorimotor Perception

Job description

Astera Institute Research Scientist: Hierarchical Sensorimotor Perception About the Role: We are seeking brilliant, unconventional thinkers to join us. In this role, you will not be chasing incremental gains on standard benchmarks. Instead, you will be tasked with developing the foundational principles of Artificial General Intelligence. We believe that understanding the "code of the brain" is the most viable path to building truly intelligent machines, and we are looking for scientists who can bridge the gap between biological intelligence, computational theory, and building at scale. Core Responsibilities: Fundamental Research on Hierarchical Perception: Develop and implement new bi-directional/recurrent architectures for hierarchical perception. These models are expected to provide flexible querying, dynamically variable levels of abstraction, and representations that support planning/reasoning. Evaluation and Benchmarks: Design experiments to test and benchmark against existing architectures for out-of-distribution generalization. Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Work alongside neuroscientists and software engineers to translate abstract mathematical frameworks into scalable s...