Real-Time Video AI Scientist for Trustworthy Robots

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental & Vision

401K match

Paid time off

Holiday benefits

Job summary

Samsung SDS America’s research lab in Mountain View advances trustworthy robot policies with real-time perception and multimodal integration. You will work on detecting anomalous robot behavior and grounding vision with language, using real robots and on-prem deployments.

The role emphasizes ownership of the technical agenda, hands-on experimentation, and deployment toward real manufacturing environments with open-ended architectures and executive sponsorship.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent industry research experience.
• First-author publications in top venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, RSS).
• Hands-on research in video understanding: temporal action detection/segmentation, video anomaly detection, streaming perception, or long-form video reasoning.

Responsibilities

• Detect anomalous robot behavior from real-time video streams.
• Research efficient vision-language models for low-latency on-prem deployment.
• Ground video observations with language and task knowledge.
• Fuse multimodal data including camera views and robot state signals.
• Develop world models and video prediction for causal reasoning.

Skills

Video understanding

Temporal action detection

Video anomaly detection

First-author publications

Education

PhD in Computer Vision/Machine Learning/Robotics

Job description

Samsung SDS America’s research lab in Mountain View advances trustworthy robot policies with real-time perception and multimodal integration. You will work on detecting anomalous robot behavior and grounding vision with language, using real robots and on-prem deployments.

The role emphasizes ownership of the technical agenda, hands-on experimentation, and deployment toward real manufacturing environments with open-ended architectures and executive sponsorship.