1 day ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandMid Level
Responsibilities
- Develop VLA models, generalist robot transformers, and imitation-learning algorithms for autonomous robot task execution.
- Design, test, and refine algorithms for real-world autonomy, navigation, spatial reasoning, and generalization.
- Streamline data collection and model-training workflows across 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 edge deployment, including Nvidia Jetson Thor.
- Build, lead, and mentor a software engineering team.
- Advise product managers and executives on strategic technical decisions.
- Create and maintain documentation, guidelines, and engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or higher in Engineering, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- At least three years of industry or research experience, with applicable PhD experience accepted.
- Strong knowledge of 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 background, 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.
- 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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