Cutting-Edge Robotics Intelligence Researcher

Samsung Research America (SRA); Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 163,600 - 324,500; Full time

Job summary

Samsung Research America’s Robot Intelligence Lab is hiring researchers at Senior, Staff, and Senior Staff levels to advance robotics, embodied intelligence, and real-world manipulation, navigation and reasoning.

Candidates will join groups such as Reasoning, Dexterity, Data Efficiency, and Robot Systems to push frontiers in TAMP, WAMs, VLA/VLMs, 3D perception, and scalable evaluation pipelines, with opportunities to publish and contribute to patents.

Qualifications

• PhD in EECS/Robotics or equivalent.
• 2+ to 14+ years’ robotics experience.
• Strong publication record in top robotics/ML venues.
• Solid robotics fundamentals including SLAM, 3D mapping, ROS.
• Experience with vision-language models and multimodal data.
• Proficiency in PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA; coding in C/C++.
• Excellent problem solving and teamwork; strong communication.

Responsibilities

• Conduct state-of-the-art robotics research in areas like TAMP, WAMs, VLA models, VLMs, 3D perception.
• Explore novel techniques and model architectures for data-efficient training.
• Design autonomy architectures to convert high-level tasks to commands.
• Develop real-time video encoders and multi-view processing for scene understanding.
• Scale evaluation pipelines across robot fleets using simulation and real-world tests.
• Collaborate in cross-functional teams; contribute to patents and publications.

Skills

ROS

C/C++

Python

CUDA

3D mapping

SLAM

Vision-language

VLMs

VLA models

Policy architectures

Education

PhD in EECS/Robotics

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

OpenCV

Docker

CUDA

Job description

Samsung Research America’s Robot Intelligence Lab is hiring researchers at Senior, Staff, and Senior Staff levels to advance robotics, embodied intelligence, and real-world manipulation, navigation and reasoning.

Candidates will join groups such as Reasoning, Dexterity, Data Efficiency, and Robot Systems to push frontiers in TAMP, WAMs, VLA/VLMs, 3D perception, and scalable evaluation pipelines, with opportunities to publish and contribute to patents.