Robotics Research Engineer — Real-World AI Systems

Nx Ai; Linz; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Klimaticket

VSOP program

Job summary

NXAI in Linz, Austria, is seeking a Robotics Research Engineer to bring next-generation sequence models from lab to the real world. You will work at the intersection of foundation model research and embodied AI, building perception, reasoning, and action pipelines for real robots.

The role is hands-on, involving tuning VLA models and debugging policies on hardware, collaborating with the core research team to advance xLSTM-enabled robotics systems in production-like settings with hybrid work.

Qualifications

• MSc/PhD in robotics or related field.
• 2+ years of industry experience in robot learning policies.
• Experience deploying neural network policies on real robots.

Responsibilities

• Own robot and workstation uptime, including new sensors and end-effectors.
• Architect fault-tolerant data pipelines for multi-modal inputs.
• Define reproducible evaluation protocols and metrics for policy progress.
• Perform root-cause analysis across robotics stack to diagnose bottlenecks.
• Bridge hardware failures and algorithm design to guide data strategy.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

ROS 1/2

Docker

Singularity

Imitation learning

Diffusion policies

Vision-Language-Action

Education

MSc/PhD in robotics

Tools

ROS 1/2

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Job description

NXAI in Linz, Austria, is seeking a Robotics Research Engineer to bring next-generation sequence models from lab to the real world. You will work at the intersection of foundation model research and embodied AI, building perception, reasoning, and action pipelines for real robots.

The role is hands-on, involving tuning VLA models and debugging policies on hardware, collaborating with the core research team to advance xLSTM-enabled robotics systems in production-like settings with hybrid work.