AI Research and Development Engineer (Physical AI)
Core
Building end-to-end stacks for robotic intelligence by scaling foundation models to physical hardware, bridging high-level reasoning with real-time action.
Role type
Senior IC AI Research and Development Engineer (Physical AI)
Builds
Open-source Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, lightweight runtimes, and safety runtimes for edge deployment.
Domain
Robotics, Physical AI, Edge Computing
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures, imitation learning, model export and optimization, graph compilation, operator fusion, precision calibration, Python, robotics hardware integration, inference runtime backends
Preferred skills
PhD in robotics/ML/CV, open-source contributions, low-level performance profiling, memory optimization
Technologies
OpenVINO, ONNX Runtime, ExecuTorch, Apache 2.0
Responsibilities
Implement and fine-tune VLA policies for robotic manipulation, optimize models for edge deployment, develop safety runtimes for action clamping and velocity limits, build model-agnostic inference APIs, support deployment across edge accelerators, write and publish research papers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
