Researcher, Robot Intelligence
$163,600–$324,500 year
On-siteMountain View Santa Clara County, California, United States
Job Summary
Conduct state-of-the-art research on task-and-motion planning, world action models, and vision-language-action systems to generalize robots for real-world manipulation and navigation. Design autonomy architectures that interpret high-level instructions and generate low-level commands while developing efficient 3D scene graph representations and semantic models. Work with teams to explore novel techniques for training robotic policies with limited data, enabling real-time video encoders and Chain-of-Thought reasoning for complex multi-step task execution. Scale robot evaluation pipelines across fleets using simulation and real-world testing, and generate patents and scientific papers for top-tier publications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams from concept to completion, producing technical results for diverse application areas within Samsung's product ecosystem.
Required Qualifications
- PhD degree in EECS/Robotics or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- 2-14+ years' experience in robotics
- Strong research track record with publications in top-tier robotics, computer vision, or ML venues (e.g., ICRA, RSS, Science Robotics, CVPR, ICCV, ICML, NeurIPS)
- Strong understanding of robotics fundamentals, including locomotion, manipulation, sensor inputs, pose tracking, 3D mapping, SLAM, ROS, and policy architectures particularly for semi-structured and unstructured environments
- Experience with foundation models, vision-language-action (VLA) models, vision language models (VLM), and agentic architectures
- Solid understanding of computer vision techniques (e.g., object detection, segmentation, tracking) and real-time video tokenizer design and multi-view image processing
- Knowledgeable of tools and processes to monitor model performance and data quality, including model tuning experience
- Familiarity with PyTorch, TensorFlow, C, C++, Java, ROS, and CUDA
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent verbal communication and writing skills to effectively represent the derived results and technical concepts developed in the course of the work
- Must not disclose any trade secrets of a current or previous employer
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