Physical AI & Robotics Engineer

Key Responsibilities
Design and implement autonomous robotic systems for real-world applications.
Develop motion planning and trajectory generation algorithms for robotic manipulators, mobile robots, and humanoid robots.
Implement and optimize Forward Kinematics (FK), Inverse Kinematics (IK), and robot dynamics for multi-DOF robotic systems.
Develop collision-aware motion planning, including path planning, trajectory optimization, manipulation planning, whole-body motion planning, and collision detection/avoidance.
Build perception pipelines using RGB cameras,depth cameras, LiDAR, IMU, and other sensors.
Develop algorithms for object detection and tracking, object pose estimation, 3D perception, scene understanding, semantic segmentation, and sensor fusion.
Implement and optimize SLAM, localization, mapping,and navigation systems.
Develop and integrate Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), LiDAR SLAM, RGB-D SLAM, and multi-sensor localization pipelines.
Develop AI-powered robotic systems using Vision-Language-Action (VLA)



models and multimodal foundation models.
Design Agentic AI architectures that enable robots to reason,decompose tasks, use tools, plan actions, and execute complex multi-step tasks.
Integrate high-level AI reasoning with low-level robotcontrol and motion planning.
Develop robotic task planning systems connecting natural language, task planning, motion planning, and robot actions.
Work with simulation environments for robot development, testing, and validation.
Deploy and optimize robotics and AI workloads on edge computers, GPU workstations, or embedded platforms.
Integrate perception, planning,AI, and control modules into complete end-to-end robotic systems.
Debug and optimize real-world robotic performance, including sensor calibration, coordinate transformations, latency, synchronization, and hardware/software integration.
Collaborate with AI engineers, mechanical engineers, control engineers, and research teams.
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