15 hours ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandMid Level
Responsibilities
- Develop Vision-Language-Action models, generalist robot Transformers, and imitation-learning algorithms such as diffusion policies.
- Design, test, and refine algorithms for real-world autonomy, navigation, spatial reasoning, and generalization.
- Streamline data collection and model-training workflows for new tasks and data sources.
- Collaborate with the reinforcement learning team using simulated and real-world data.
- Optimize and distill neural networks for real-time deployment on edge hardware such as Nvidia Jetson Thor.
- Build, lead, and mentor a software engineering team.
- Advise product managers and executives on strategic decisions.
- Create and maintain documentation, guidelines, and best practices.
Requirements
- At least three years of industry or research experience, with applicable PhD experience accepted.
- Strong fundamentals in supervised learning, self-supervised learning, Transformer architectures, policy optimization, imitation learning, generative AI, and diffusion models.
- Proven experience developing Vision-Language-Action models or large-scale generalist robot models such as RT-2 or Octo.
- Strong robotics experience, including autonomy and navigation.
- Experience deploying artificial neural networks on hardware platforms.
- Ability to prototype algorithms and train deep neural networks using Python and PyTorch.
- Master's degree or higher in Engineering, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- Preferred: PhD in Robotics, Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a similar discipline, or equivalent research experience.
- Preferred: Publications at top-tier conferences.
- Preferred: Experience managing a software team.
- Preferred: Ability to write production-level code in modern C++.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About Amazon
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