Engineer, Embodied AI

Black Sesame Technologies (Singapore) Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Sesame Technologies (Singapore) Pte Ltd seeks an Embodied AI / Robot Intelligence R&D Engineer to develop next-generation robot intelligence systems. You will bridge large AI models with real-world robotic perception, planning, decision-making, and control, building a modular robot brain architecture that combines LLM/VLM/VLA, world models, spatial intelligence, and ROS 2-based execution.

You will work on embodied AI algorithms for perception, reasoning, task planning and autonomous

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or above in Robotics, AI, CS, Automation, EE, Mech Eng or related field.
• Proficient in Python and/or C++.
• Solid robotics fundamentals: perception, planning, SLAM/navigation, manipulation, RL.

Responsibilities

• Develop embodied AI algorithms for robotic perception and autonomous execution.
• Research and integrate LLM, VLM and VLA models into real systems.
• Develop hierarchical robot planning architectures including LLM-based planning.

Skills

Python

C++

Robot perception

Task planning

SLAM/Navigation

Robot manipulation

Reinforcement learning

Transformer

VLM

LLM

Generative models

Education

Master’s degree or above

Tools

ROS/ROS 2

Job description

We are looking for an Embodied AI / Robot Intelligence R&D Engineer to develop next-generation robot intelligence systems that bridge large AI models with real-world robotic perception, planning, decision-making, and control. The role will focus on building a modular robot brain architecture combining LLM/VLM/VLA, world models, task planning, spatial intelligence, robot skills, physical verification, and ROS 2-based execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop embodied AI algorithms for robotic perception, reasoning, task planning and autonomous execution.
• Research and integrate LLM, VLM and VLA models into real-world robotic systems.
• Develop hierarchical robot planning architectures, including LLM-based planning, task planning, skill planning and execution.
• Build and maintain robot skill/capability models, task graphs and reusable skill libraries.
• Research world models, spatial intelligence and persistent robot memory for long-horizon robotic tasks.
• Develop semantic-geometric representations combining visual semantics, 3D geometry and robot/environment states.
• Conduct simulation and real-robot experiments on mobile robots, quadruped robots, manipulators and other robotic platforms.
• Track and evaluate state-of-the-art research in embodied AI, robot foundation models, VLA, world models and autonomous robotics.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree or above in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Automation, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++.
• Solid understanding of robotics fundamentals, including at least several of the following: robot perception; task planning; SLAM/navigation; robot manipulation; reinforcement learning.
• Experience with ROS/ ROS 2.
• Good understanding of modern deep learning architectures such as Transformer, VLM, LLM or generative models.
• Ability to independently implement and evaluate research ideas on real robotic systems.

Experience with real-world robot deployment, publications, patents, or open-source robotics projects will be an advantage.