Real-Time Video AI Research Scientist (Robotics)

Samsung SDS America; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401K match

Paid Holidays

Paid Time Off

Wellness program

Parental leave

Life insurance

Job summary

Samsung SDS America, Inc. is seeking a PhD-level researcher to join a hands-on lab focused on trustworthy robot fleets. You will work on real robots, collect data via teleoperation, train open-source models, and deploy them to production lines with latency and cost constraints.

We offer an executive-sponsored, milestone-driven environment where you define architectures and experiments. Your work directly shapes our path to pilot deployments in real manufacturing settings.

Qualifications

• PhD in a relevant field or equivalent industry research experience.
• First-author publications in top venues.
• Hands-on research in video understanding (temporal action detection, anomaly detection, streaming perception).

Responsibilities

• Detect anomalous robot behavior from real-time multi-camera video.
• Advance efficient vision-language models for low-latency on-prem deployment.
• Research video-language grounding and multimodal fusion.
• Develop world models and video prediction for causal reasoning.
• Contribute to deployment path into production lines.

Skills

PhD in Computer Vision/ML/Robotics

First-author publications

Video understanding research

Education

PhD or equivalent industry research experience

Job description

Samsung SDS America, Inc. is seeking a PhD-level researcher to join a hands-on lab focused on trustworthy robot fleets. You will work on real robots, collect data via teleoperation, train open-source models, and deploy them to production lines with latency and cost constraints.

We offer an executive-sponsored, milestone-driven environment where you define architectures and experiments. Your work directly shapes our path to pilot deployments in real manufacturing settings.