Robot Intelligence Research Engineer

Samsung Research America; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 163,600 - 324,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Excellent benefits

On-site in Mountain View

Job summary

Samsung Research America’s Robot Intelligence Lab in Mountain View invites researchers and engineers at Senior, Staff and Senior Staff levels to join a growing team focused on robotics and embodied intelligence. You will work across groups such as Reasoning, Dexterity, Data Efficiency and Robot Systems to advance state-of-the-art robotics technologies.

The role emphasizes design, integration, and evaluation of robotic perception, planning, and control algorithms, with opportunities to publish

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree in EECS/Robotics or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 2-14+ years’ experience in state-of-the-art robotics R&D, such as task-and-motion planning, VLA models, open-world 3D perception, trajectory prediction, MD control, RL, multimodal information fusion, and whole-body control.
• Demonstrated experience in sensing, kinematics, dynamics, and control systems on real robots.
• Solid understanding of computer vision techniques (object detection, segmentation, tracking) and multi-view image processing.
• Knowledgeable of tools and processes to monitor ML model performance and data quality, including model tuning experience.
• Familiarity with PyTorch, TensorFlow, C++, ROS, and CUDA.
• Demonstrated experience in software engineering best practices to track, communicate, and document progress.
• Strong robotics fundamentals including locomotion, manipulation, pose tracking, 3D mapping, SLAM, ROS, and policy architectures for semi/unstructured environments.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and evaluate robotic hardware, sensors, and software for semi-structured/unstructured environments.
• Integrate sensors and actuators into proof-of-concept robotic systems and optimize performance.
• Develop and test algorithms for perception, control, learning, navigation, and manipulation.
• Create virtual models and simulations using system identification, real-to-sim, and sim-to-real techniques.
• Develop data collection, processing, and model management for in-the-wild data.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams from concept to completion.
• Document and present results evaluating algorithms on target compute platforms.
• Conduct pilot studies and formal experiments to benchmark against state-of-the-art approaches.
• Maintain fleets of robots and infrastructure for logging and monitoring.

Skills

PhD/MS Robotics

Robotics R&D

TAMP & VLA

3D Perception

Kinematics & Dynamics

Vision & CV

ML Model Monitoring

PyTorch

TensorFlow

C++ / ROS

CUDA

Software Eng Practices

Education

PhD or MS in EECS/Robotics

Job description

Samsung Research America’s Robot Intelligence Lab in Mountain View invites researchers and engineers at Senior, Staff and Senior Staff levels to join a growing team focused on robotics and embodied intelligence. You will work across groups such as Reasoning, Dexterity, Data Efficiency and Robot Systems to advance state-of-the-art robotics technologies.

The role emphasizes design, integration, and evaluation of robotic perception, planning, and control algorithms, with opportunities to publish