Robotics Engineer - Singapore: Foundation Model Training
General Robotics10 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeSenior
Responsibilities
- Formulate research hypotheses and design rigorous experiments informed by deployment needs.
- Develop and scale foundation models for robotic perception and action.
- Use simulation and diverse datasets for pretraining, post-training, reinforcement learning, and evaluation.
- Scale simulation platforms for data generation and reinforcement learning across heterogeneous scenes and tasks.
- Improve generalization, spatial understanding, sim-to-real transfer, and reliability under real-world deployment constraints.
- Develop Auto-Engineering methods for scalable and robust deployment.
- Implement, evaluate, communicate, and productionize research as reusable work.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Research or applied experience in machine learning, robotics, or computer vision.
- Strong Python programming skills and experience with PyTorch.
- Experience developing and evaluating machine-learning models or robotics algorithms.
- Experience with at least one robotics simulation platform.
- Familiarity with inverse kinematics, dynamics, and robotic manipulation.
- Demonstrated research ability through publications, substantial research contributions, or equivalent industry work.
- Must obtain and maintain work authorization in the country of employment.
- Desired qualifications include an MS or PhD, first-author publications at venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, CoRL, RSS, or ICRA, and experience with vision-language-action models, world models, diffusion or flow-matching policies, transformers, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, large-scale pretraining, simulation scaling, and sim-to-real evaluation.
Benefits
- Singapore-based role with close collaboration with the US team.
- Engineers from the Singapore and US offices regularly visit each other for collaboration.
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About General Robotics
General Robotics builds a software platform for general-purpose robot intelligence that composes modular AI skills for sensing, reasoning, and safe, real-world performance. The company sells its platform and developer tools to robotics OEMs, integrators, and enterprises deploying mobile or fixed robots across varied environments. Privately held and founded in 2023, it is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.