AI Research and Development Engineer – Physical AI

🕒 June 19

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Intel Corporation

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1968

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Manufacturing • Consulting • Logistics

Intel Corporation is a leading technology company that specializes in manufacturing and selling a variety of hardware and software products. Its offerings include processors such as Intel Core, Intel Xeon, and Intel Atom, as well as discrete graphics, AI accelerators, silicon photonics, and embedded solutions. Intel serves various industries with its networking, storage solutions, and developer resources, focusing heavily on AI and performance-driven technologies. The company plays a significant role in advancing computing experiences across PCs, data centers, cloud, edge, and 5G networks. Intel is committed to delivering high performance and secure technologies while fostering innovation through its expansive partner ecosystem and development tools.

📋 Description

• Implement and fine-tune Vision-Language-Action policies for robotic manipulation and control • Export and optimize VLA models for edge deployment using export pipelines, graph optimization, and precision calibration • Develop safety runtimes managing action clamping, velocity limits, and workspace bounds • Build and maintain model-agnostic inference APIs across robotic platforms and hardware backends • Support deployment across edge accelerators and inference runtimes for broad hardware compatibility • Write and publish research papers at top-tier venues • Contribute to Intel’s Open Edge Platform and OpenVINO toolkit • Develop the end-to-end stack for robotic intelligence from large-scale model training to real-time edge deployment

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience with PyTorch and PyTorch Lightning, including distributed training for large-scale models • Hands-on experience with industrial robots, autonomous mobile robots, and humanoid robots • Familiarity with robotics hardware and software stacks, including cameras, depth sensors, robot control interfaces, and Robotics Operating Systems • Experience with real-world robot deployment and integration • Deep understanding of Vision-Language-Action architectures and imitation learning for embodied agents and robotic systems • Expertise in model export and optimization, including graph compilation, operator fusion, and precision calibration • Familiarity with OpenVINO, ONNX Runtime, and ExecuTorch • Ability to write clean, modular Python code • Ability to manage complex deployment dependencies across heterogeneous training, simulation, and production environments • PhD in robotics, machine learning, computer vision, or a related field is listed as nice to have, not required • Contributions to open-source robotics, embodied AI, or model optimization projects are nice to have • Background in low-level performance profiling, memory optimization, and hardware-aware optimization is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully home-based work arrangement • Open-source tools and projects under the Apache 2.0 license • Opportunity to build tools usable and modifiable by the robotics community • Ownership of the full pipeline from model training to physical robot control • Opportunity to contribute to a hardware-agnostic physical intelligence stack • Total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry