California Lead, Autonomous Robotics Research

Siemens; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 203,000 - 348,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding site leadership

Industrial deployment surfaces

Defined path to venture incubation

Job summary

Siemens in California leads a long horizon robotics research program focused on autonomous, polyfunctional robot systems. You will direct method development for learning from demonstrations and multi-modal foundation models, ensuring safety and scalable transfer to factory environments.

You will build and lead the California team, hire senior researchers, and coordinate with Munich and Shanghai under a single global architecture and roadmap to deliver impact across Siemens businesses.

Qualifications

• PhD in robotics, control, machine learning, or a closely related field, or equivalent research depth demonstrated through sustained first tier output.
• Publication record at recognized venues (ICRA, IROS, CoRL, RSS, T-RO or comparable), including work you personally led.
• Hands on depth in at least two of: robot learning and foundation models for robotics, vision language action systems, large scale robot data collection and training infrastructure, sim to real transfer, manipulation.
• You have trained and evaluated real robot policies, not only published about them: a system exists because of your work.
• Led a research team, including hiring senior researchers and making kill decisions on your own projects.

Responsibilities

• Local technical execution and research quality in California.
• Lead hiring and build the team: you recruit from a fiercely competitive market and hold a bar that survives it.
• Local partnerships with universities, frontier labs, and the startup ecosystem.
• Stay up to speed across every research direction in the topic and act as the authority on it inside Siemens.
• Engage in the research community through peer reviewed publications and presence at key events.
• Engage deeply in the local research activities of your region: universities, institutes, labs, and the surrounding ecosystem.
• Lead the filing of IP patents from your program: model architectures, data infrastructure, and adaptation methods are strategic assets.
• A transfer or venture hypothesis for your program’s results, developed with the global head.
• Cross site coordination with Munich and Shanghai so the program produces one system, not three prototypes.

Job description

Siemens in California leads a long horizon robotics research program focused on autonomous, polyfunctional robot systems. You will direct method development for learning from demonstrations and multi-modal foundation models, ensuring safety and scalable transfer to factory environments.

You will build and lead the California team, hire senior researchers, and coordinate with Munich and Shanghai under a single global architecture and roadmap to deliver impact across Siemens businesses.