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

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  "name": "Senior AI Research Engineer (m/w/d) Foundation Models",
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  "schedule": "full-time",
  "createdAt": "2026-03-03T14:09:41+00:00",
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  "subcompany": "Agile Robots SE",
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      "name": "About the role",
      "value": "<strong><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;\">The AI Research Division of Agile Robots </span></strong><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;\">is looking for a Senior AI Research Engineer focused on learning-based robot policies and multimodal foundation models for embodied intelligence. The role centers on designing representations and objectives that map perception and language to robot behavior under real-world uncertainty, with ownership of model-level decisions and behavioral outcomes.</span><br><br>"
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      "value": "<ul><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Policy Design:</strong> 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.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Model Architecture:</strong> Define and adapt model architectures, inductive biases, and training objectives for embodied learning under uncertainty beyond standard fine-tuning workflows.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Behaviour Analysis:</strong> Analyze policy behavior and failure modes under distribution shift, embodiment constraints, and real-world noise, and refine models to improve robustness and generalization.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Learning Pipelines:</strong> Own end-to-end learning pipelines from data assumptions through training, evaluation, and controlled real-world validation in collaboration with robotics teams.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Integration Collaboration:</strong> Collaborate closely with robotics, perception, and platform teams to ensure learned policies align with action spaces, timing constraints, and system-level requirements.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Research Awareness:</strong> Track and critically evaluate advances in robot learning, multimodal foundation models, and vision-language-action systems, assessing their applicability to embodied intelligence.</li></ul>"
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      "name": "Essential Skills",
      "value": "<ul><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Education:</strong> Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, AI, or a related technical field.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Robot Learning:</strong> Hands-on experience designing and training learning-based policies for robotics using imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or hybrid approaches.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Multimodal Models:</strong> Experience adapting or designing transformer-based, diffusion-based, or vision-language-action models for embodied tasks.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Modelling Depth:</strong> Ability to reason about representations, objectives, inductive biases, and behavioral trade-offs, including explaining why a model is structured in a particular way.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Behavioural Ownership:</strong> Demonstrated responsibility for model-level outcomes, including debugging policy failures and improving robustness in real-world or semi-real environments.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>ML Engineering:</strong> Strong Python skills and hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, including implementation of training loops and experimentation workflows.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Robotics Context:</strong> Understanding of how learned policies interact with perception outputs, action spaces, and physical constraints in robotic systems.</li></ul>"
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    {
      "name": "Beneficial Skills",
      "value": "<ul><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Large-Scale Training:</strong> Experience with distributed training, GPU clusters, or large-scale experimentation workflows.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Predictive Components:</strong> Experience leveraging predictive or world-model elements to improve policy robustness or long-horizon behavior.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Embodied Evaluation:</strong> Experience validating learned policies on real robotic systems or in high-fidelity simulation with sim-to-real considerations.</li><li style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;\"><strong>Research Output:</strong> Publications, patents, or deployed systems in robotics, multimodal learning, or embodied AI.</li></ul>"
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      "value": "<ul><li><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;\">Dynamic high-tech company combined with financial soundness and world class investors.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;\">Join an interdisciplinary, international team with 60+ different nationalities in a collaborative work environment.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;\">Lots of development opportunities in the context of our continued growth.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;\">Challenging tasks and impactful projects alongside experts that enable professional and personal growth.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;\">Corporate Benefits Program that covers health, mobility and learning with 100 € net per month.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;\">Modern office facilites with a rooftop terrace overlooking Munich, free drinks & fruits, and regular company events contribute to a good working environment.</span></li></ul>"
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