Senior AI Research Engineer (m/w/d) Foundation Models

The AI Research Division of Agile Robots is looking for a Senior AI Research Engineer focused on learning-based robot policies and multimodal foundation models for embodied intelligence.

Requirements

• Policy Design: Design and train vision- and language-conditioned robot policies using imitation learning, diffusion-based approaches, or transformer architectures, with clear linkage between representation, objective, and resulting behavior.
• Model Architecture: Define and adapt model architectures, inductive biases, and training objectives for embodied learning under uncertainty beyond standard fine-tuning workflows.
• Behaviour Analysis: Analyze policy behavior and failure modes under distribution shift, embodiment constraints, and real-world noise, and refine models to improve robustness and generalization.
• Learning Pipelines: Own end-to-end learning pipelines from data assumptions through training, evaluation, and controlled real-world validation in collaboration with robotics teams.
• Integration Collaboration: Collaborate closely with robotics, perception, and platform teams to ensure learned policies align with action spaces, timing constraints, and system-level requirements.
• Research Awareness: Track and critically evaluate advances in robot learning, multimodal foundation models, and vision-language-action systems, assessing their applicability to embodied intelligence.

Benefits

• Dynamic high-tech company combined with financial soundness and world class investors.
• Join an interdisciplinary, international team with 60+ different nationalities in a collaborative work environment.
• Lots of development opportunities in the context of our continued growth.
• Challenging tasks and impactful projects alongside experts that enable professional and personal growth.
• Corporate Benefits Program that covers health, mobility and learning with 100 € net per month.
• Modern office facilites with a rooftop terrace overlooking Munich, free drinks & fruits, and regular company events contribute to a good working environment.