Senior Physical AI & Robotics Scientist - Lab Automation
Core
Architecting and deploying fully autonomous, self-healing laboratories for lights-out drug discovery using Physical AI, 3D perception, and robotic manipulation.
Role type
Senior hands-on IC Physical AI & Robotics Scientist
Builds
Autonomous lab platforms, multi-physics digital twins, and closed-loop robotic control systems for drug discovery.
Domain
Biopharma / Robotics / Physical AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
3D computer vision, motion planning (ROS 2, MoveIt 2), sim-to-real tuning, multimodal Vision AI (VLMs), edge inference optimization (TensorRT), visual servoing, hardware API integration (gRPC, SiLA 2)
Preferred skills
OpenUSD scene graphs, high-throughput lab automation hardware, imitation learning, reinforcement learning
Technologies
NVIDIA Isaac, Omniverse, Metropolis, ROS 2, MoveIt 2, cuMotion, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Newton Engine, PyTorch, TensorRT, Jetson (Thor/Orin), OpenUSD, gRPC, SiLA 2
Responsibilities
Develop 3D perception pipelines and dynamic motion planning algorithms; Build multi-physics simulation environments for robot-labware interactions; Apply system identification and sim-to-real tuning; Fine-tune multimodal Vision AI models for anomaly detection; Optimize low-latency inference on edge hardware; Integrate digital twins with heterogeneous hardware APIs
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
