Robotics Intelligence Researcher

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

Job summary

Samsung Research America’s Robot Intelligence Lab seeks researchers across Senior, Staff, and Senior Staff levels to advance intelligent robotics and embodied AI. You will tackle tasks from perception to manipulation, leveraging Samsung’s ecosystem to create real-world impact.

The role involves pioneering work in autonomous architectures, multimodal reasoning, and scalable robot evaluation, with collaboration across groups and opportunities for patents and publications.

Qualifications

• PhD in EECS/Robotics or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 2-14+ years’ experience in robotics.
• Strong research track record with publications in top-tier robotics, computer vision, or ML venues (e.g., ICRA, RSS, Science Robotics, CVPR, ICCV, ICML, NeurIPS).
• 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.
• Experience with foundation models, vision-language-action (VLA) models, vision language models (VLMs), and agentic architectures.
• Familiarity with PyTorch, TensorFlow, C, C++, Java, ROS, and CUDA.

Responsibilities

• Conduct state-of-the-art research to push boundaries of robotics in areas like task-and-motion planning (TAMP), world action models (WAMs), and multimodal data fusion.
• Design autonomy architectures that interpret high-level task instructions and generate lower-level commands.
• Develop 3D scene graph representations and other 3D semantic/geometric models.
• Scale robot evaluation pipelines across fleets using simulation and real-world testing.
• Publish patents and scientific papers for top-tier venues.

Skills

2-14+ years experience in robotics

strong research track record

robotics fundamentals

vision-language-action models

vision language models

3D mapping

SLAM

policy architectures

VLMs and VLA models

multimodal data fusion

CoT reasoning

excellent communication

Education

PhD in EECS/Robotics

equivalent education/experience

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

C

C++

Java

ROS

CUDA

Job description

Samsung Research America’s Robot Intelligence Lab seeks researchers across Senior, Staff, and Senior Staff levels to advance intelligent robotics and embodied AI. You will tackle tasks from perception to manipulation, leveraging Samsung’s ecosystem to create real-world impact.

The role involves pioneering work in autonomous architectures, multimodal reasoning, and scalable robot evaluation, with collaboration across groups and opportunities for patents and publications.