Senior Physical AI Engineer

Samsung Electronics
Mountain View, CA
Job Description
Role Overview

Join the Samsung SDS America AI Team in researching the next generation of intelligent robotic systems. Work with humanoid robots, collecting data, training policies, and deploying them in real-world environments. Research dexterous manipulation and advance hand and grasping capabilities.

What You Will Do

Design and develop intelligent robotic systems, build scalable training pipelines, develop production-grade robotics software, train and deploy learning-based robotic policies, and integrate AI models with physical robot actuators.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role is for those who enjoy working with robots that move, learn, and interact with the physical world. You will work alongside a small team that takes real ownership of what we develop here, helping shape research directions and seeing your work move quickly from ideas to robot experiments on real hardware.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of industry experience in robotics, embodied AI, physical AI, or autonomous systems
  • Master's degree of PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or relevant field
  • Strong Python programming skills with experience building scalable production systems
  • Hands-on experience building, training, and deploying machine learning systems for robotics applications
  • Deep familiarity with reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch
  • Strong understanding of robotics fundamentals, including robot control systems, kinematics and dynamics, perception and sensor fusion, camera and tactile sensor integration
  • Experience with robotics middleware such as ROS or ROS2
  • Experience working with simulation environments such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Sapien, or equivalent platforms
  • Strong debugging and systems engineering skills across software and hardware boundaries
  • Experience deploying robotics systems into real-world physical environments

Benefits

  • Top-notch medical, dental, vision and prescription fully covered for You and Your family
  • Wellness program
  • Parental leave
  • 401K match and savings plan
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Life insurance
  • Paid Holidays
  • Paid Time off
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