Research Engineer, Robotics & Embodied AI
Meta AI · Zurich, Switzerland
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At a glance
Highlights
- Take foundation VLAs and world models from simulation onto real robot hardware.
- Run experiments that reveal problems only appearing in the physical world.
- Turn research results into working prototypes pushing AI, robotics and AR/VR.
Ideal candidate
A hands-on roboticist who loves bringing real hardware to life and bridging cutting-edge research with the physical world, driven by curiosity for why policies fail outside simulation.
Requirements
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in robotics, computer vision, machine learning, or a related field
- Industry experience with modern, general-purpose robot platforms
- Hands-on experience bringing up, calibrating, and debugging a new robot platform from scratch
- Experience running learned policies on real robots and improving their performance
- First-author publications at ICRA, CoRL, RSS, IROS, or CVPR, or widely used open-source contributions
- Proficient in Python and PyTorch
Lab profile
About Meta AI
Meta's AI lab advancing foundation models, generative and multimodal AI for consumer and enterprise products.
What they build
- Foundation models and AI tools
- Business AI agents
- AI-powered consumer experiences
Known for
- Large language models
- Generative models
- Computer vision
- Multimodal AI