Responsibilities
- Own the design, implementation, validation, and operation of major Physical AI platform components.
- Develop scalable infrastructure for training and serving multimodal and robotics models, including vision-language-action models, world models, and robot policies.
- Translate research ideas into production-ready capabilities with defined reliability, performance, and quality targets.
- Lead technical design for complex projects and drive production adoption.
- Collaborate with adjacent teams, customers, researchers, open-source communities, and hardware partners.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to shared architecture and engineering standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of software engineering, machine learning systems, robotics, or related industry experience.
- Strong software and systems engineering fundamentals, including experience designing, building, and operating production-scale distributed or data-intensive systems.
- Deep expertise in robotic learning, AI training and inference infrastructure, or robotics data and simulation systems.
- Preferred experience with imitation learning, reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, world models, policy evaluation, distributed training, inference engines, GPU kernels, collective communication, synthetic data generation, simulation, data curation, or sim-to-real workflows.
- Preferred contributions to relevant open-source projects such as Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Cosmos, vLLM-Omni, SGLang Omni, or RLInf.
- Preferred experience building large-scale AI or robotics platforms used by multiple teams or external customers, or working with real-world robot systems and operational challenges.
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