Researcher, Robot Intelligence

Samsung Research America (SRA) is dedicated to advancing the field of robotics through cutting-edge research and development. They are seeking Researchers for their Robot Intelligence Lab who possess solid technical skills and rich experience in robotics and embodied intelligence, aiming to develop advanced technologies for intelligent robotic systems.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct state-of-the-art research to push boundaries of emerging fields of robotics, on topics such as task-and-motion planning (TAMP), world action models (WAMs), vision-language-action (VLA) models, vision language models (VLMs), open-world 3D perception, dexterous manipulation, real2sim2real, whole-body control, and multimodal (vision, tactile, audio, semantic) data fusion
• Work with team to explore novel techniques, device interfaces, and model architectures to train robotic policies effectively with limited available data
• Design autonomy architectures that interpret high-level task instructions and generate low-level task commands
• Enable real-time video encoders with multi-view inputs for robust scene understanding, enable VLMs to reason about general task knowledge, including tool usage, object interactions, and task feasibility assessment, and enable Chain-of-Thought (CoT) task reasoning on VLM for complex, multi-step task execution
• Develop efficient 3D scene graph representation and other 3D semantic/geometric models/solutions
• Scale robot evaluation pipelines across robot fleets with a combination of simulation and real-world testing
• Work within cross-functional, cross-divisional teams and assist in the design, analysis and performance evaluation from concept to completion
• Generate patents and scientific research papers for top-tier publications