AI Engineer - VLA Foundation Model, RIVR

RIVR Technologies AG; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 180.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

RIVR Technologies AG is building Physical AI with autonomous robots for real-world doorstep delivery. You will develop multi-modal models enabling robots to act from demonstrations, sensor data, and language commands, focusing on VLA models, imitation learning, and diffusion policies.

The role requires leading a team of engineers, collaborating with product leadership, and delivering edge-deployable solutions on hardware like Nvidia Jetson.

Qualifikationen

• Master’s degree or higher in a relevant field such as Engineering, Robotics, or Machine Learning.
• 3+ years of industry or research experience; PhD applicable.
• Strong deep learning fundamentals: supervised, self-supervised, transformers, diffusion models.
• Experience developing Vision-Language-Action or large-scale robot models.
• Expertise in robotics autonomy, navigation, and deployment on hardware.
• Proficiency prototyping algorithms and training deep nets in Python (PyTorch).
• Production-level coding in modern C++ is a plus.

Aufgaben

• Develop and implement VLA models, generalist robot transformers, and imitation learning algorithms.
• Design and test algorithms for real-world autonomy and navigation with spatial reasoning.
• Streamline data collection and training workflows for new tasks and data sources.
• Collaborate with RL team to leverage simulated and real-world data.
• Optimize and distill networks for edge deployment (e.g., Nvidia Jetson Thor).
• Build, lead and mentor an exceptional software engineering team.
• Provide guidance to product managers and executives for strategic decisions.

Kenntnisse

Vision-Language-Action models

Imitation learning

Transformer-based architectures

Supervised & self-supervised learning

Python (PyTorch)

Robotics & autonomy

C++ production coding

Ausbildung

Master’s degree or higher in Engineering/Robotics/ML

PhD preferred or applicable research experience

Tools

PyTorch

NVIDIA Jetson

C++

Jobbeschreibung

RIVR, an Amazon company, is building Physical AI by deploying autonomous robots for real-world doorstep delivery. Operating daily in diverse urban environments, RIVR's robots continuously learn from and navigate the millions of scenarios encountered during deliveries. By owning the full stack from software. Our fleet of delivery robots operates globally today, generating vast amounts of robotic real-world data. By utilizing state-of-the-art Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, large-scale generalist models (like Transformers), generative AI, and similar methods, we can leverage this pool of data to significantly enhance its autonomy, navigation, and manipulation skills. In this role, you will develop multi-modal models that enable robots to autonomously generate actions from demonstrations, real-time sensor data, and natural language commands. We are seeking an expert in VLA models, imitation learning, and generative AI techniques with a deep knowledge of supervised, and self-supervised learning algorithms. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI we invite you to join us in shaping the future of intelligent robotics.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop and implement Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, generalist robot transformers, and imitation learning algorithms (e.g., diffusion policies) to enable robots to autonomously execute complex tasks.
• Design, test, and refine your algorithms to meet the demands of complex real-world autonomy and navigation tasks, with a focus on spatial reasoning and generalization.
• Streamline the data collection and training workflow to efficiently expand model capabilities with new tasks and data sources.
• Collaborate with the reinforcement learning team to innovate methods that leverage both simulated and real-world data.
• Optimize and distill networks for real-time deployment on the edge (e.g. Nvidia Jetson Thor).
• Build, lead and mentor an exceptional team of software engineers.
• Provide expert guidance to product managers and executives for strategic decision-making.
• Create and maintain documentation, guidelines, and best practices to streamline knowledge sharing.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree or higher in a relevant field such as Engineering, Robotics, or Machine Learning.
• At least three years of industry or research experience, with PhD experience applicable.
• Strong deep learning fundamentals including supervised learning, self-supervised learning, Transformer-based architectures, policy optimization algorithms, imitation learning, and generative AI techniques (including Diffusion Models).
• Proven experience in developing Vision-Language-Action models or large-scale generalist robot models (e.g., RT-2, Octo).
• Strong background in robotics including autonomy, navigation.
• Experience with deploying artificial neural networks on hardware platforms.
• Ability to prototype algorithms and train deep neural networks in Python (Pytorch)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD degree in Robotics, Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of research experience.
• Publications at top-tier conferences.
• Experience in managing a software team.
• Ability to write production-level code in modern C++