Robotics & Embodied AI Research Engineer

VinMotion; Cypress, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Job summary

VinMotion is seeking a Research Engineer, Robotics & Embodied AI to bridge cutting-edge AI research with reliable, real-world robotic systems. You will work closely with Research Scientists and robotics engineers to implement, optimize, integrate, test, and deploy state-of-the-art algorithms on humanoid robots.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering with a solid understanding of modern AI, robotics, control, or perception.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, CS, AI, EE, Mechatronics, or related field.
• Strong programming ability in Python and C++.
• Experience with PyTorch and/or TensorFlow.
• Solid understanding of robotics, ML, control, or computer vision.
• Hands-on experience implementing and debugging complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Implement state-of-the-art algorithms and research prototypes in robot learning, RL, imitation learning, motion control, perception, and embodied AI.
• Reproduce and evaluate recent research from leading robotics and AI conferences.
• Build training and evaluation pipelines for robot learning models.
• Develop reusable software infrastructure to accelerate experimentation.
• Translate novel research ideas into reliable and maintainable implementations.
• Integrate AI algorithms into real-time humanoid robotic systems.
• Work on motion control, manipulation, locomotion, perception, navigation, and multimodal interaction.
• Develop interfaces between AI models and existing robotics software.
• Support deployment and validation on physical humanoid robot platforms.
• Build and maintain simulation environments and data pipelines; support Sim2Real.

Skills

Python

C++

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree in related field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

VinMotion is seeking a Research Engineer, Robotics & Embodied AI to bridge cutting-edge AI research with reliable, real-world robotic systems. You will work closely with Research Scientists and robotics engineers to implement, optimize, integrate, test, and deploy state-of-the-art algorithms on humanoid robots.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering with a solid understanding of modern AI, robotics, control, or perception.