Robotics AI Engineer: Vision-Language & Autonomy

Amazon Science; Zürich; Presencial; CHF 140.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Amazon Science in Zurich is seeking an experienced AI researcher to advance Viusal-Language-Action models and large-scale robot models. You will push the state of the art in autonomy, navigation, and real-world deployment, collaborating with RL teams and leading a skilled software group.

The role emphasizes developing algorithms, prototyping with PyTorch, and deploying optimized models on edge hardware like NVIDIA Jetson, contributing to strategic decisions with product managers and executives.

Formación

• 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).
• Master’s degree or higher in a relevant field such as Engineering, Robotics, or Machine Learning.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Vision-Language-Action models

Transformer architectures

Imitation learning

Generative AI

Reinforcement learning basics

Python (PyTorch)

Robotics autonomy/navigation

Edge deployment

Educación

PhD in Robotics/Engineering/CS

Master's in Engineering/Robotics/ML

Herramientas

NVIDIA Jetson platform

C++

Descripción del empleo

Amazon Science in Zurich is seeking an experienced AI researcher to advance Viusal-Language-Action models and large-scale robot models. You will push the state of the art in autonomy, navigation, and real-world deployment, collaborating with RL teams and leading a skilled software group.

The role emphasizes developing algorithms, prototyping with PyTorch, and deploying optimized models on edge hardware like NVIDIA Jetson, contributing to strategic decisions with product managers and executives.