AI Research & Innovation Engineer

Universal Robots, WE WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE THROUGH ROBOTICS

Our international team of hardware, software, and business professionals comes from all walks of life and is united by a common goal: sharing the world-changing benefits that robots can provide.

We offer a highly stimulating, dynamic environment with unlimited career potential – where you set your own level of success. You will be an essential part of a team that is focused on success, growth, development, and innovation. 

You’ll be part of Universal Robots.

We are looking for an Innovation Research Engineer with Deep Learning and Robot Software experience for New Product Development. The journey involves combining cutting-edge technology with passionate, talented engineers. Your job will be to eliminate customer challenges and help our partners deliver solutions in a frictionless and scalable way. You will be working with our Product + Innovation teams, ensuring a tight link between new product development and real customer problems. You will facilitate collaboration between our innovation teams in the US and wider R&D teams in Denmark.

Key Responsibilities

• Prototype product features that leverage cutting edge technologies making Universal Robots products more capable and easier to use.
• Contribute to development of framework to bring Nvidia technologies including Isaac ROS into the Universal Robots platform.
• Design tools and interfaces to allow Universal Robots users to leverage advances in commercial AI space in their production environments.
• Being a key source of knowledge on Isaac ROS and the wider Nvidia Robotics/accelerated computing toolkits.
• Develop prototype software for Polyscope X to test new Perception based programming concepts.

and functionalities.

• Be customer focused as part of the team that tests new concepts with real end

users and gathers their feedback.

Required Experience

• Master’s or equivalent in Robotics, and/or Computer Science/Engineering with a concentration in Machine Learning, or Computer Vision
• 2+ years of relevant post-graduate work experience

• Experience with Nvidia machine learning ecosystem.
• Full stack development experience preferred (Docker, Python, JavaScript, Angular)
• Experience in a production development environment.
• Experience with ROS2 (specifically Isaac ROS is a plus)
• Experience in vision guided manipulation is a plus.
• Experience with UR robots is a plus.

The position is based in North Reading, MA. We support a hybrid work schedule. This position requires some domestic and international travel to current and prospective customers and partners.

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