To work this around set the GroupRenderMode property of RadGridView to Flat.

When GroupRenderMode is set to Nested the issue can be overcome by calling the BringIntoView method on the row returned in the ScrollIntoViewAsync method's callback:  
gridView.ScrollIndexIntoViewAsync(index,
  new Action<FrameworkElement>((f) =>
  {
      f.BringIntoView();
  }));