Physical AI Engineer, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton2 days ago
Base Salary
$113k - $257k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, development, and deployment of physical AI systems for autonomous systems and embodied agents.
- Design and implement perception, planning, motion control, manipulation, navigation, sensor fusion, and multimodal AI capabilities.
- Develop large-scale training pipelines using simulation, synthetic data generation, imitation learning, and reinforcement learning.
- Translate robot learning, foundation model, and world model research into production-ready solutions.
- Mentor senior engineers and establish engineering best practices and technical standards.
- Partner with business, research, and mission stakeholders to define strategy and assess emerging technologies.
- Represent Booz Allen in industry forums, technical exchanges, and client engagements.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience developing AI, robotics, autonomous systems, or machine learning solutions.
- Experience delivering production AI systems from concept through deployment.
- Experience with reinforcement learning, imitation learning, robot learning, computer vision, planning, autonomous navigation, manipulation, sensor fusion, multimodal AI, or foundation models.
- Experience with Python, C++, and modern AI frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, or Ray.
- Experience with robotic middleware and simulators such as ROS, ROS2, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, or Gazebo.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Master's degree.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are offered.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards are available.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, with select offerings for employees below that threshold.
- The position is subject to Booz Allen's stated work-model expectations, including possible in-person work at a Booz Allen or customer facility for remote roles and facility work according to leadership expectations for hybrid roles.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).