Senior AI Engineer, Vision-Language-Action Robotics

Amazon Inc.; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 140.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

RIVR, an Amazon company, is building Physical AI by deploying autonomous robots for real-world doorstep delivery. Based in Zürich, the team develops Vision-Language-Action models and large-scale transformer systems to enable robots to act from demonstrations and natural language commands.

The role requires a strong background in deep learning, robotics, and deploying neural networks on hardware; you will lead model research, collaborate with product leaders, and mentor engineers while driving

Qualifikationen

• Master’s degree or higher in a 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)

Aufgaben

• 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.

Kenntnisse

Deep learning fundamentals

Transformer architectures

Imitation learning

Reinforcement learning

Ausbildung

Master's degree in Engineering/Robotics/ML

PhD in Robotics or related field

Tools

Python (PyTorch)

C++

NVIDIA Jetson

Jobbeschreibung

RIVR, an Amazon company, is building Physical AI by deploying autonomous robots for real-world doorstep delivery. Based in Zürich, the team develops Vision-Language-Action models and large-scale transformer systems to enable robots to act from demonstrations and natural language commands.

The role requires a strong background in deep learning, robotics, and deploying neural networks on hardware; you will lead model research, collaborate with product leaders, and mentor engineers while driving