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Intrinsic · 1 week ago

Applied Research Engineer, Motion Planning

Mountain View, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$200K/yr - $230K/yr

2+ years exp

Intrinsic is Alphabet’s initiative focused on transforming industrial robotics through advancements in AI and simulation. The Applied Research Engineer, Motion Planning will develop novel machine learning and reinforcement learning solutions for robotics applications, collaborating with a dynamic team to bring prototypes to real-world functionality.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)RoboticsSoftware

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop new motion planning approaches for single and multi-robot planning, starting from existing prototypes

Exploit advances in machine learning (e.g,. graph nets, deep-learning, transformer models, etc.) for developing novel data-driven motion planning systems

Implement state of the art algorithms and libraries in Python, C++, and Jax

Bring problems from industrial partners to functional new solutions with very high reliability and performance

Distill recent robotics/ML research publications for target problems and implement promising solutions

Qualification

Motion planningMachine learningRoboticsC++PythonResearch experiencePhysical simulationsDeep learningJaxHigh-quality publicationTeam collaboration

Required

Masters in Computer Science, Robotics or equivalent with practical experience in robotics and machine learning

Be knowledgeable and comfortable in working with physical simulations (e.g., Gazebo, Bullet, MuJoCo, IsaacSim, etc.) to implement motion planning/machine learning algorithms

At least 2 years of experience in one or more of: motion planning for robotics, classical robot motion planning (e.g., RRTs, PRMs), machine learning/deep learning

Solid Experience programming in C++, Python, and ideally Jax

Must have research experience in a related field and at least one high-quality publication in a peer-reviewed academic journal/conference

Preferred

PhD in Robotics, Computer Science or a similar technical field

Experience with the design and implementation of large, complex machine learning algorithms with large amounts of data and highly parallelized algorithms

4 years of applied experience in machine learning for robotics motion planning

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Bonus

Equity

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Company

Intrinsic

Intrinsic is a robotics software and AI company making industrial robotics accessible for businesses.

Founded in 2021

Mountain View, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.intrinsic.ai

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