PhD in Agentic Robotics: System-1/System-2 Autonomy

The Italian Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI4I); Piemonte; Híbrido; EUR 17.000 - 21.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salaries

Performance-based incentives

High-performance computing resources

State-of-the-art laboratories

Strong industrial collaborations

Descripción de la vacante

The Italian Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI4I) invites applications for a PhD position focused on Agentic and System-1/System-2 architectures for robot autonomy. The project investigates how multimodal foundation models, Vision-Language-Action policies, and world models can be designed to achieve reliable autonomy in unstructured environments.

Collaboration with Politecnico di Torino is intended, with opportunities for visits to partner institutions.

Formación

• Background in machine learning, robotics, computer vision, or control.
• Solid programming in Python and experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
• English proficiency (CEFR B2) and independence are essential.

Responsabilidades

• Study agentic AI architectures and System-1/System-2 paradigms for robotic autonomy.
• Develop orchestration between multimodal reasoning models and fast policies.
• Investigate verification and failure-recovery mechanisms across the stack.
• Validate methods in simulation and on real robotic platforms; publish results.

Conocimientos

Python programming

Independence

Analytical skills

English proficiency

Educación

Master’s degree in a relevant field

Eligible for PhD admission in Italy

Herramientas

PyTorch

JAX

Ros/Ros2

MuJoCo

Isaac Sim

Model Predictive Control

Descripción del empleo

The Italian Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI4I) invites applications for a PhD position focused on Agentic and System-1/System-2 architectures for robot autonomy. The project investigates how multimodal foundation models, Vision-Language-Action policies, and world models can be designed to achieve reliable autonomy in unstructured environments.

Collaboration with Politecnico di Torino is intended, with opportunities for visits to partner institutions.