Robotics Research Engineer — Real-World AI for Robots (Hybrid)

NXAI; Linz; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Klimaticket

Hybrid work

Performance-based compensation

Job summary

NXAI in Linz, Austria is seeking a Robotics Research Engineer to bring next-generation sequence models from lab to real robots. You will build perception, reasoning and action pipelines for embodied AI, integrating sensors, compute units and end-effectors to run in real-time on hardware.

You will work closely with the core research team to bridge foundation-model research with industrial robotics, tuning policies and evaluating performance in real-world settings, with a hybrid work model and

Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry experience training and deploying robot learning models or MSc/PhD focused on policy learning.
• Demonstrated track record of deploying and debugging neural network policies on physical robots with safety constraints and hardware calibration.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and PyTorch.
• Proficiency with Linux, ROS 1/2, Docker and containerization tools.
• Strong understanding of imitation learning paradigms and dataset curation strategies.
• Discipline in designing reproducible physical benchmarking protocols.

Responsibilities

• Own physical robot and workstation uptime, including integration of sensors, compute units and end-effectors; iteratively shaping throughput.
• Architect and maintain fault-tolerant, high-throughput pipelines for multi-modal data ingestion with validation and versioning.
• Establish standardized real-world evaluation protocols and metrics to benchmark policy progression.
• Conduct end-to-end root-cause analysis across robotics stack from sensors to inference runtimes.
• Serve as feedback loop between deployment and algorithm design; translate hardware failures into research directions.
• Fine-tune, optimize and deploy learning-based policies into real-time control on hardware.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Linux

ROS 1/2

Docker

Singularity

Imitation learning

Diffusion policies

Vision-Language-Action

Data curation

Education

MSc/PhD in Robotics or ML

Tools

ROS 1/2

Docker

Singularity

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Job description

NXAI in Linz, Austria is seeking a Robotics Research Engineer to bring next-generation sequence models from lab to real robots. You will build perception, reasoning and action pipelines for embodied AI, integrating sensors, compute units and end-effectors to run in real-time on hardware.

You will work closely with the core research team to bridge foundation-model research with industrial robotics, tuning policies and evaluating performance in real-world settings, with a hybrid work model and