Robotics Intelligence Research Engineer

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

Job summary

Samsung Research America’s Robot Intelligence Lab is hiring across Senior, Staff and Senior Staff levels to advance robotics through research and development. We’re seeking researchers who can tackle perception, control, planning and embodied intelligence in real-world tasks.

Candidates will join multiple groups (Reasoning, Dexterity, Data Efficiency, Robot Systems) with responsibilities across design, prototyping, experiments and documentation.

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 (TAMP), vision-language-action (VLA) models, open-world 3D perception, trajectory prediction, model predictive control, large-scale reinforcement learning, multimodal (visual, tactile, audio, semantic) information fusion, and whole-body control
• Demonstrated experience in sensing, kinematics, dynamics, and control systems integrated on real robotic systems
• Solid understanding of computer vision techniques (e.g., 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 project progress
• Strong understanding of robotics fundamentals, including locomotion, manipulation, sensor inputs, pose tracking, 3D mapping, SLAM, ROS, and policy architectures particularly for semi-structured and unstructured environments
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Excellent verbal communication and writing skills to effectively represent the derived results and technical concepts developed in the course of the work

Responsibilities

• Design and evaluate the suitability of robotic hardware, sensors, and software for applications in semi-structured and unstructured environments targeting high impact business areas
• Integrate sensors, actuators and other component into proof-of-concept/prototype robotic systems and analyze and optimize robotic system performance and accuracy
• Design, develop, integrate and test algorithms for robot perception, control, learning, navigation, and manipulation
• Synthesize virtual models (simulations) of appearance, kinematics, and physics of real robots and environments using system identification, real-to-sim, scene generation, and sim-to-real techniques
• Develop and deploy data collection, data processing, and model management mechanisms for in-the-wild data aggregation
• Work within cross-functional, cross-divisional teams and assist in the design, analysis and performance evaluation from concept to completion
• Document and present results evaluating algorithms and models on targeted compute platforms
• Conduct pilot studies and formal experiments to benchmark performance against state-of-the-art approaches using clear and well-reasoned metrics
• Maintain fleets of robots and associated infrastructure for logging, monitoring, and evaluating performance across the fleet

Skills

Robotics R&D

Task-and-motion planning

Vision-language-action

3D perception

Reinforcement learning

Multimodal information fusion

Whole-body control

PyTorch

TensorFlow

C++

ROS

CUDA

Software engineering

Independent & team work

Education

PhD or Master’s degree in EECS/Robotics

Tools

ROS

CUDA

PyTorch

TensorFlow

C++

Job description

Samsung Research America’s Robot Intelligence Lab is hiring across Senior, Staff and Senior Staff levels to advance robotics through research and development. We’re seeking researchers who can tackle perception, control, planning and embodied intelligence in real-world tasks.

Candidates will join multiple groups (Reasoning, Dexterity, Data Efficiency, Robot Systems) with responsibilities across design, prototyping, experiments and documentation.