Robotics Intelligence Researcher — Advanced Lab

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

Job summary

Samsung Research America is building a Robotics Intelligence Lab focused on cutting-edge research in embodied intelligence, with opportunities across Senior, Staff, and Senior Staff levels. We seek researchers who combine strong academic and industry experience to push generalization of robots in real-world settings.

The role spans multiple groups—Reasoning, Dexterity, Data Efficiency, and Robot Systems—and emphasizes publishing, patent generation, and collaboration with Samsung's broader

Qualifications

• PhD in EECS/Robotics or equivalent.
• 2+ years robotics research experience.
• Strong publication record in top robotics/ML venues.
• Solid fundamentals in locomotion, manipulation, sensing, SLAM, ROS.

Responsibilities

• Conduct state-of-the-art robotics research in TAMP, WAMs, VLA, VLMs, 3D perception, manipulation and multi-modal data fusion.
• Design autonomous architectures that translate high-level tasks into low-level actions.
• Develop 3D scene graphs and scalable robot evaluation pipelines across fleets.
• Collaborate across groups, contribute to publications and patents.

Skills

PhD required

Robotics experience

Publications track-record

ROS & SLAM

Foundation models

Vision & CV

PyTorch/TensorFlow

C/C++/CUDA

Education

PhD in EECS/Robotics

Tools

ROS

CUDA

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Samsung Research America is building a Robotics Intelligence Lab focused on cutting-edge research in embodied intelligence, with opportunities across Senior, Staff, and Senior Staff levels. We seek researchers who combine strong academic and industry experience to push generalization of robots in real-world settings.

The role spans multiple groups—Reasoning, Dexterity, Data Efficiency, and Robot Systems—and emphasizes publishing, patent generation, and collaboration with Samsung's broader