Robot Intelligence Researcher - AI Robotic Systems

Samsung Electronics GmbH; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsung Research America’s Robot Intelligence Lab in Mountain View is advancing robotics and embodied AI across planning, perception, and learning. We hire across Senior, Staff and Senior Staff levels based on experience and impact.

You will conduct state-of-the-art robotics research, collaborate across teams, publish papers and contribute to patents while helping scale evaluation and deployment across real-world robotic tasks.

Qualifications

• PhD in EECS/Robotics or equivalent with research experience.
• 2–14+ years robotics experience and strong publication record.
• Strong fundamentals in locomotion, manipulation, SLAM, ROS.
• Experience with foundation models and VLA/VLM architectures.

Responsibilities

• Conduct state-of-the-art robotics research in topics like TAMP, WAMs, VLA/VLMs, open-world 3D perception, dexterous manipulation, real2sim2real, and multimodal data fusion.
• Collaborate to explore novel techniques, interfaces, and model architectures for data-efficient training of robotic policies.
• Design autonomy architectures translating high-level tasks into low-level commands.
• Enable real-time video encoders with multi-view inputs and CoT reasoning on VLMs for complex tasks.
• Develop 3D scene graphs and semantic/geometric models for robotics.
• Scale robot evaluation pipelines across fleets using simulation and real-world tests.
• Publish papers and generate patents.

Skills

2-14+ years robotics experience

Publications in robotics/ML venues

Strong problem-solving

Excellent verbal and written comms

Education

PhD in EECS/Robotics

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

C

C++

Java

ROS

CUDA

Job description

Samsung Research America’s Robot Intelligence Lab in Mountain View is advancing robotics and embodied AI across planning, perception, and learning. We hire across Senior, Staff and Senior Staff levels based on experience and impact.

You will conduct state-of-the-art robotics research, collaborate across teams, publish papers and contribute to patents while helping scale evaluation and deployment across real-world robotic tasks.