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




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