Research Scientist Jobs in California

Job Number: P25F10

Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a Research Scientist to advance human-AI co-adaptation and continual learning for next-generation multimodal AI systems. The successful candidate will conduct original research in continual learning, personalization, memory and retrieval mechanisms, and learning from human feedback, enabling AI systems that improve through interaction with people in real-world environments.

Location: San Jose, CA

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct original research on continual, interactive, and lifelong learning for multimodal AI systems.
• Develop methods that enable AI systems to adapt, personalize, and improve through interaction with human users.
• Investigate mechanisms for human-AI interactive learning, including lightweight adaptation, memory and retrieval, uncertainty-aware learning, and learning from human feedback.
• Develop algorithms that remain robust under distribution shifts, changing user populations, evolving tasks, and changing multimodal inputs.
• Advance methods for user modeling, personalization, and human-AI co-adaptation through repeated interaction.
• Design and utilize simulated and real-world environments to study adaptation, personalization, and human-AI collaboration.
• Design rigorous evaluation methodologies and benchmarks to measure adaptation, robustness, and long-term human-AI interaction.
• Conduct empirical analyses of adaptation dynamics, including sample efficiency, calibration, stability, and catastrophic forgetting.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and contribute to publications, patents, prototypes, and research innovations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• Strong research record in machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, or related disciplines, demonstrated through publications, impactful projects, or equivalent research contributions.
• Demonstrated ability to formulate, lead, and execute independent research programs.
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following areas:
• Continual learning, online learning, test-time adaptation, personalization, or learning from human feedback.
• Multimodal AI systems, including representation learning, alignment, grounding, or reasoning across modalities.
• Human-AI interaction, human-aware AI, assistive AI, or interactive learning systems.
• Embodied AI, decision-making systems, or adaptive AI systems operating in real time.
• Strong communication, presentation, and collaboration skills.
• 1 - 3 years of relevant work experience.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with continual learning, online learning, test-time adaptation, memory-augmented systems, retrieval-augmented systems, or learning from human feedback.
• Experience with personalization, user modeling, adaptive assistants, or long-term human-AI interaction.
• Experience with uncertainty estimation, calibration, and robust adaptation in multimodal systems.
• Experience with multimodal reasoning, agentic systems, planning, or decision-making in collaborative human-AI environments.
• Experience with simulation and benchmarking platforms for embodied AI, human-AI interaction, or multi-agent systems.
• Publication record at leading venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, RSS, or CoRL.

Desired Start Date 7/6/2026

Position Keywords Machine Learning, Continual Learning, multimodal AI, human-AI co-adaptation

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