Founding Research Engineer, Embodied AI for Robotics

present of AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mbodi AI is seeking a researcher to develop embodied AI for robots, enabling language understanding, learning from demonstrations, and reliable physical-world action. This role emphasizes both research and practical system building, leveraging PyTorch and Python to connect model research with hardware deployment.

You'll work on transforming innovative ideas into working robotic systems, focusing on latency-aware deployment and end-to-end system integration with state-of-the-art models.

Qualifications

• Experience with modern ML, transformers, and foundation models.
• Strong Python and PyTorch skills for end-to-end system development.
• Ability to translate research ideas into working robotic systems.

Responsibilities

• Build AI systems for language understanding in robots and learn-from-demonstrations.
• Deploy models on latency-sensitive hardware and validate in the real world.
• Translate research ideas into practical robotic applications.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Transformers

Foundation models

End-to-end systems

Job description

Mbodi AI is seeking a researcher to develop embodied AI for robots, enabling language understanding, learning from demonstrations, and reliable physical-world action. This role emphasizes both research and practical system building, leveraging PyTorch and Python to connect model research with hardware deployment.

You'll work on transforming innovative ideas into working robotic systems, focusing on latency-aware deployment and end-to-end system integration with state-of-the-art models.