Director of Data‑Efficient Robotics & AI

Samsung Electronics GmbH

Mountain View (CA)

On-site

USD 204,000 - 306,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Samsung Research America in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Data Efficiency group within the Robot Intelligence Lab. The role focuses on data-efficient learning for robotics, collaborating with researchers, developers, and roboticists to push AI-enabled capabilities into real-world tasks.

The ideal candidate has a PhD, 7+ years in robotics, and deep expertise in ML pipelines, simulation, and deployment.

Qualifications

  • PhD in technology or engineering or equivalent.
  • 7+ years after PhD in robotics.
  • Strong ML training, data/model management, augmentation, multi-GPU training.
  • Production robot learning pipelines with sim/teleoperation/egocentric video
  • Knowledges of locomotion, manipulation, sensors, SLAM, ROS, Isaac-SIM
  • Mentorship and team leadership abilities
  • Excellent communication and business-level engagement with customers

Responsibilities

  • Direct and manage state-of-the-art R&D in data efficient learning for robotics.
  • Lead a team to engineer data processing, learning, deployment pipelines.
  • Lead proof-of-concepts, demos, pilots on robot platforms.
  • Oversee team operations: recruiting, milestones, patents, contracting, purchasing.
  • Generate patents and scientific papers for top-tier publications

Skills

PhD in tech/engineering
7+ years robotics experience
ML training & deployment
Robotics data pipelines
Leadership & mentorship
Communication & stakeholder mgmt
Program management

Education

PhD in technology/engineering

Tools

NVIDIA Isaac-SIM
ROS

Job description

Samsung Research America in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Data Efficiency group within the Robot Intelligence Lab. The role focuses on data-efficient learning for robotics, collaborating with researchers, developers, and roboticists to push AI-enabled capabilities into real-world tasks.

The ideal candidate has a PhD, 7+ years in robotics, and deep expertise in ML pipelines, simulation, and deployment.

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