Senior Robotics Vision & Localization Engineer

Grab; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits

Parental leave

Birthday leave

Volunteer leave

Job summary

Grab's Robotics Technology team seeks a Senior Localization Engineer / Research Engineer to advance visual navigation for autonomous platforms. Based in Singapore, you will bridge vision-based methods with production deployment, collaborating with systems engineers to integrate navigation models into the autonomy stack for last-mile delivery.

The role emphasizes research depth, publication, and cross‑team collaboration.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, AI, Computer Vision, or closely related field.
• Strong publication record or demonstrable research contributions in Visual Navigation, VLN, Embodied AI, or Robot Perception.
• Proficiency in Python and at least two ML frameworks/tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement novel deep learning models for visual navigation and VLN.
• Integrate vision-based navigation algorithms onto real robot hardware and build benchmarks.
• Drive dataset collection, collaboration with hardware/systems teams, and publish findings.

Skills

VLN research

Visual place recognition

Deep learning

Reinforcement learning

Python

PyTorch

ROS 2

Research communication

Education

PhD in CS/Robotics/AI/CV

Tools

ROS 2

PyTorch

TensorFlow/JAX

Job description

Grab's Robotics Technology team seeks a Senior Localization Engineer / Research Engineer to advance visual navigation for autonomous platforms. Based in Singapore, you will bridge vision-based methods with production deployment, collaborating with systems engineers to integrate navigation models into the autonomy stack for last-mile delivery.

The role emphasizes research depth, publication, and cross‑team collaboration.