Applied Scientist Lead - Robotics, EMEA

Skills

About the Role

You will set the technical direction for robotics in Applied Science and lead high-stakes robotics projects with customers from scoping to deployment. You will build and mentor a team, run model training on large GPU clusters, own data strategy and benchmarks, develop tooling, and engage senior stakeholders.

Requirements

• Fluent in English with excellent communication skills
• Experience leading a technical AI, science or engineering team
• Expert with PyTorch or JAX
• Deep experience with VLM, VLA models, perception, navigation, manipulation and simulation tools (e.g. Isaac SIM), with a track record of shipping models on real robots
• Comfortable contributing to a big codebase independently
• Writes clean, high-performance, fault-tolerant Python code
• Track record of success through personal projects, professional projects or academia

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for robotics in Applied Science
• Lead technical execution of robotics projects with customers and partners
• Build and mentor a team of robotics Applied Scientists and Research Engineers
• Run pre-training, post-training and deploy state of the art models on clusters with thousands of GPUs
• Own data strategy and curate datasets (image-text, video-text, teleoperation, simulation)
• Build evaluators and benchmarks for perception, navigation and manipulation
• Develop tools and frameworks for data generation, training, evaluation and deployment
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Manage research projects and communications with client research teams and senior stakeholders

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage
• Parental leave
• Retirement plans
• Relocation support
• Wellness programs
• Meal and transportation allowances