Research Scientist in AI algorithms for humanoid robots at NVIDIA. Designing novel AI algorithms and collaborating with research teams on robotics and embodied agents.
Responsibilities
Design and implement novel AI algorithms and models for general-purpose humanoid robots and embodied agents;
Develop large-scale AI training and inference methods for foundation models;
Optimize and deploy AI models in physical simulation and on robot hardware;
Collaborate with research and engineering teams across all of NVIDIA to transfer research to products and services.
Requirements
Ph.D. in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, etc., or equivalent research experience.
Outstanding engineering skills in rapid prototyping and model training frameworks (PyTorch, Jax, Tensorflow, etc.).
Python or C++ is required; CUDA or ROS proficiencies are a plus;
Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience for training LLMs, multimodal foundation models, or large generative models.
Experience in foundation and diffusion models, reinforcement learning, agent learning, and applied robotics.
Experience across one or both of these fields: Multimodal Foundation Models.
Hands-on training experience and publications in at least one of the following topics: LLMs; Large vision-language models; Video generative models and diffusion algorithms; Action-based transformers.
Excellent skills in working with large-scale machine learning/AI systems and compute infrastructure.
Robotics Hands-on training experience and publications in robot learning, such as reinforcement learning, imitation learning, classical control methods, etc.
Deep understanding of robot kinematics, dynamics, and sensors;
Ability to safely operate robot hardware, lab equipment, and tools;
Knowledge of control methods, including PID, model predictive control, and whole-body control;
Familiarity with physics simulation frameworks such as MuJoCo and Isaac Sim;
Robot hardware design and hands-on building experience.
Benefits
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