AI Research Engineer

ROBOSPEC PTE. LTD.; Queenstown; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ROBOSPEC PTE. LTD. in Queenstown, New Zealand, seeks an AI robotics engineer to develop, train, fine-tune, and evaluate AI models for robotics and Physical AI applications.

You will work with vision models for object detection, segmentation, tracking, and pose estimation, and integrate LLMs, VLMs, and multimodal models for robot perception and planning. You will build data pipelines for collection, preprocessing, training, evaluation, and inference, and explore learning-based approaches for

Job description

Develop, train, fine-tune, and evaluate AI models for robotics and Physical AI applications.

Work with modern vision models, including object detection, segmentation, tracking, pose estimation, and vision foundation models.

Integrate and experiment with LLMs, VLMs, and multimodal models for robot perception, reasoning, planning, and task understanding.

Build data collection, preprocessing, training, evaluation, and inference pipelines.

Explore learning-based approaches for robot manipulation, including imitation learning, policy learning, and multimodal action models.

Evaluate new research models and quickly determine whether they can create practical value in our system.

Work closely with robotics and software engineers to bring AI models from experiments into real robot deployments.

Continuously explore new approaches in foundation models, embodied AI, and Physical AI.