AI Research Engineer

Collaborative Robotics, branded as Cobot, develops and deploys collaborative mobile robots for material-handling work alongside people.

Santa Clara, United States
About Collaborative Robotics

Its commercially available Proxie robot combines autonomous mobility, manipulation, perception, and fleet-management software for hospitals, manufacturing floors, and logistics facilities.

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Skills

Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will design, build, and iterate on machine-learning pipelines for foundational models. You will train and evaluate transformer, diffusion, and reinforcement-learning models, turn research ideas into working code, integrate ML components into real-world systems, and share AI research insights.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Machine Learning, AI, Computer Science, or a related technical field
  • At least 3 years of applied ML research and software engineering experience
  • Experience training large-scale ML models such as transformers or diffusion models
  • Understanding of reinforcement learning
  • Python proficiency
  • Experience with PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
  • Ability to write clean, efficient, scalable code
  • Collaboration and communication skills
  • US work authorization

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and iterate on experimental ML pipelines
  • Implement and train transformer and diffusion-based models
  • Develop and evaluate reinforcement-learning algorithms and frameworks
  • Prototype and deploy research ideas into working code
  • Integrate ML components into real-world systems
  • Share AI research insights internally and externally

Benefits

  • Relocation stipend for eligible candidates relocating to the Seattle office