Senior Physical AI Engineer
Samsung SDS America · Mountain View, CA · 1 mo ago
On-siteResearch$200k–$270k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Design and develop intelligent robotic systems powered by modern AI and machine learning techniques
- Build scalable training pipelines for embodied AI and robot learning applications
- Develop production-grade robotics software in Python and related frameworks
- Train and deploy learning-based robotic policies using reinforcement learning and imitation learning approaches
- Integrate AI models with physical robot actuators, camera systems, and sensor pipelines
- Implement robotics control algorithms, kinematics, dynamics, and sensor fusion systems
- Work with simulation and synthetic data generation environments including Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Sapien, or similar platforms
- Optimize low-latency inference and control systems for real-world robotic deployment
- Collaborate across robotics, AI, systems, and hardware teams to bring intelligent robotic platforms into production
- Contribute to the architecture of next-generation embodied AI systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience in robotics, embodied AI, physical AI, or autonomous systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or relevant field
- Strong Python programming skills with experience building scalable production systems
- Hands-on experience building, training, and deploying machine learning systems for robotics applications
- Deep familiarity with reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch
- Strong understanding of robotics fundamentals, including: - robot control systems - kinematics and dynamics - perception and sensor fusion - camera and tactile sensor integration
- Experience with robotics middleware such as ROS or ROS2
- Experience working with simulation environments such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Sapien, or equivalent platforms
- Strong debugging and systems engineering skills across software and hardware boundaries
- Experience deploying robotics systems into real-world physical environments
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with humanoid robotics or manipulation systems
- Background in autonomous systems or embodied foundation models
- Experience with GPU acceleration and distributed training systems
- Familiarity with synthetic data generation and sim-to-real transfer techniques
- Experience optimizing robotics systems for edge or embedded deployment