AI Research Scientist: Multimodal Robotics & Digital Twins

STMicroelectronics; Agrate Brianza; On-site; EUR 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

STMicroelectronics’ Applied Mathematics Team seeks an exceptional AI Research Scientist to advance AI-driven modeling of complex systems. You will explore foundation models, scientific machine learning, multimodal learning, and simulation to model, understand, and optimize physical processes.

You will develop intelligent systems for Robotics and VLA applications, and create physical modeling algorithms for Digital Twins, enabling predictive and explainable representations of complex systems.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent research experience is preferred.
• Strong hands-on AI experimentation and software development skills.
• Independent problem identification, hypothesis formulation, and project execution.

Responsibilities

• Drive research in AI-driven modeling, robotics, and intelligent systems.
• Design and develop advanced AI models for physical, industrial, and embodied environments.
• Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts based on emerging AI technologies.
• Contribute to multimodal AI, simulation-driven learning, robotic intelligence, and VLA systems.
• Design and develop physical modeling algorithms and hybrid AI-physics models to support next-generation Digital Twin solutions.
• Create modeling frameworks that combine data, domain knowledge, and physical constraints.
• Design rigorous experiments and evaluation methodologies.
• Publish results, contribute to patents, and communicate technical findings.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across research, engineering, and product groups.

Skills

AI research

Python

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

Multimodal Learning

Time-Series Modeling

Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Reinforcement Learning

Simulation

Robotics

Vision-Language-Action (VLA)

Digital Twins

Education

PhD or equivalent research experience in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or related fields

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

Job description

STMicroelectronics’ Applied Mathematics Team seeks an exceptional AI Research Scientist to advance AI-driven modeling of complex systems. You will explore foundation models, scientific machine learning, multimodal learning, and simulation to model, understand, and optimize physical processes.

You will develop intelligent systems for Robotics and VLA applications, and create physical modeling algorithms for Digital Twins, enabling predictive and explainable representations of complex systems.