Senior Applied AI Engineer

Headquartered in sunny Los Angeles, GrayMatter Robotics is a well-capitalized AI robotics startup serving the manufacturing industry. We empower shop floor workers with our smart robots that assist with tedious and ergonomically challenging tasks, specifically in automated surface finishing. Our proprietary GMR-AITM software is integrated with state-of-the-art industrial robots, sensors, and tools to create application-specific turnkey solutions for customers through a Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) model.

Requirements

• Design, implement, and train state-of-the-art AI models for perception, inspection, decision-making, and control in real-world robotic manufacturing systems.
• Lead the development of simulation-based tooling used across a broad range of AI use cases at GMR, including reinforcement learning for recipe learning, scalable synthetic data generation, and autonomous robotic cell setup.
• Own and advance synthetic data generation pipelines, leveraging generative AI techniques for complex 3D geometry and environment, physics-based simulation, and image data, and scaling them across diverse processes and applications.
• Develop and deploy multi-modal inspection and health monitoring systems, integrating vision, 3D sensing, force/torque, and other sensor modalities.
• Bridge the gap between simulation and reality, ensuring models trained in simulation transfer robustly to physical robotic cells.
• Optimize, deploy, and maintain ML models on production robotic systems, considering latency, reliability, and hardware constraints.
• Troubleshoot complex, cross-disciplinary issues spanning ML models, simulation environments, robotics software, sensors, and hardware.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) plan + employer match
• Regular offsite events
• Discretionary fund for enhancing productivity