Senior AI/ML Engineer, Physical AI Solutions (UR & MiR, North Reading, MA)

About the role

We're seeking an exceptional Senior AI/ML Engineer to join our advanced Physical AI engineering team at the forefront of industrial robotic innovation. This role sits at the intersection of cutting-edge AI technology and real-world product deployment, where you'll help define what's possible in physical AI for both autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and industrial robotic arms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and deployment of physical AI capabilities that enable robots to navigate, manipulate, and interact with their environments with unprecedented intelligence.
• Advance work in obstacle detection, object identification and classification, pose estimation, SLAM technologies, and precision localization systems.
• Work across our platform for simulation and data generation, leveraging diverse sensor modalities such as RGBD cameras, LiDAR, and Time-of-Flight sensors.
• Systematically analyze how successive training runs impact performance, quality metrics, and limitations of AI models.
• Collaborate with R&D teams at Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots to shape the future of collaborative robotics and autonomous mobile platforms.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of sensor technologies (RGBD, LiDAR, ToF, etc.) and the ability to architect solutions that leverage their respective strengths and limitations.
• Experience shipping AI-powered products to market and supporting them in production customer environments.
• Good software engineering fundamentals with experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into existing robotics software stacks.
• Expertise in data science and data engineering, understanding that great AI solutions are built on great data.
• Collaborative mindset with experience working in cross-functional teams building complete systems, not just isolated algorithms.
• Demonstrated ability to rigorously evaluate ML model performance, establish meaningful metrics, and track quality across training iterations.
• Experience utilizing simulation environments to accelerate engineering and validation workflows.

Technical Expertise

• Core robotics AI concepts: obstacle detection, object identification and classification, pose estimation.
• Variety of SLAM approaches and their trade-offs.
• Localization techniques from precision to relative positioning.
• Experience working with both robotic manipulators and mobile platforms.
• Hands-on experience with NVIDIA Isaac platform and tools.
• Background working with AMRs or industrial robotic arms in production settings.
• Knowledge and interest in the emerging field of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and their application to robotics.
• Contributions to robotics or AI research communities.

Why This Role Matters

You'll be joining a team that's already delivered mature platforms for simulation and data generation across multiple problem domains. We're not just building technology for tomorrow—we're deploying it today, solving real problems for customers in industrial automation while continuously pushing the state of the art. At Teradyne Robotics, you'll have the unique opportunity to impact both mobile robotics and collaborative manipulation platforms used by thousands of customers worldwide.