Research Engineer
Applied Intuition
About the Role
Applied Intuition is seeking passionate early-career Research Engineers to join the Research Group. The group focuses on creating cutting-edge technology for next-generation physical AI, specifically in end-to-end autonomous driving and robotic generalist applications. This role is designed for recent PhD or MS graduates ready to translate strong academic research into shipped autonomy systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the ADAS stack engineering team to test and deploy end-to-end algorithms for mass production vehicles.
- Collaborate with the simulation team to deploy data-driven generation algorithms for highly efficient and automated tools.
- Conduct research on architecture design, robustness, safety, and language modality incorporation for our differentiable stack.
- Work closely with Research Scientists and interns on high-quality research publications for submission to top-tier conferences.
- Contribute to and learn best practices in the autonomy and robotics industries within a fast-paced, customer-focused culture.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Hands-on experience in at least one of the following fields:
- World-action foundation model, video/Gaussian generation, diffusion policy, multi-modal robot learning
- VLA post-training, reinforcement learning
- Physics-aware reconstruction, deformable simulation
- Technical experience in: Python, Pytorch, computer vision, robotics systems, and distributed machine learning model training.
Qualifications
- MSc or PhD in machine learning and computer vision with autonomy and robotics applications or a closely related field, graduating by December 2026 or Summer 2027.
- Passion for next-generation, scalable autonomy and robotics for real-world systems.
- Strong engineering and research skills with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
- 1+ year of experience in any field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Nice To Have
- Industry experience on relevant topics (self-driving application preferred).
- Passion for building and shipping customer-focused software frameworks or tools.