Postdoctoral Research Associate - Robotics and Embodied AI

Brookhaven National Laboratory; Upton (NY); On-site; USD 68,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Brookhaven National Laboratory's AI Department invites qualified candidates for a postdoctoral research position in robotics within the Scientific Embodied Agents Lab (SEAL). The role focuses on AI-driven robotics research to advance experimental science and develop generalizable embodied AI methods for robots and systems within BNL's scientific workflows.

The successful candidate will join a growing team, contribute to perception, control, manipulation, and interaction studies, and collaborate

Qualifications

• Fundamental and applied robotics research skills
• Experience with perception, control, manipulation, and interaction in robotics
• Ability to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams across institutions

Responsibilities

• Conduct fundamental and applied research and development in robotics, including work on robotic perception, control, manipulation and interaction
• Work effectively with single-arm, bimanual, humanoid, and semi-humanoid robots, and with various end-effectors, sensors, control interfaces, and APIs for experiments, benchmarking efforts, and development of novel perception and control methods
• Collaborate effectively with interdisciplinary teams across BNL and with academic and industry partners
• Conceive and execute high-quality research ideas in partnership with AI Department colleagues and mentors

Job description

Brookhaven National Lab’s (BNL) AI Department welcomes qualified candidates to apply to a new postdoc research position in robotics. The Scientific Embodied Agents Lab (SEAL) within the Computing and Data Sciences (CDS) directorate is working at the intersection of AI and robotics to investigate the challenges and opportunities facing advanced robotics technologies in supporting current scientific workflows and enabling new capabilities. A key motivator for this endeavor is the breadth of experimental science that form the core of BNL’s research focus. We seek to leverage generalizable, AI-driven robotics approaches to accelerate scientific discovery, enable robust knowledge capture and transfer, and support experimental science in novel ways that cannot be met with traditional automation techniques. A successful candidate will join a growing team developing AI methods for robotics, with an emphasis on an Embodied AI paradigm.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Conduct fundamental and applied research and development in robotics, including work on robotic perception, control, manipulation and interaction
• Work effectively with single-arm, bimanual, humanoid, and semi-humanoid robots, and with various end-effectors, sensors, control interfaces, and APIs for a variety of experiments, benchmarking efforts, and development of novel perception and control methods
• Collaborate effectively with interdisciplinary teams across BNL and with our academic and industry partners
• Conceive and execute high-quality research ideas in partnership with AI Department colleagues and mentors