Key Responsibilities

• Research, ideate, and implement robot cognition and reasoning algorithms for adaptive intelligence to enable learning robust behaviors and recover from failures.
• Validate the results through comprehensive data analysis and successful demonstrations on hardware.
• Deliver results in accordance with the project timelines.
• Assist with compiling written and oral reports for executives within the company and performing demos.
• Contribute to the portfolio of patents, academic publications, and prototypes to demonstrate research value.
• Collaborate with our teams of scientists and engineers in Honda’s regional and global R&D offices, as well as with our partners in academia and industry.
• Supervise interns.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ph.D. in robotics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• Expert Knowledge on learning-based methods such as reinforcement learning, generative models (e.g. diffusion) and inference models.
• Extensive experience in development of planning and control methods for autonomous systems.
• Strong familiarity with transformer models and (multimodal) foundation models (e.g. VLMs).
• Extensive experience with physics-based simulations.
• Strong familiarity with sensing and state estimation in robotics.
• Solid knowledge of fundamentals of robotics. (e.g. robot kinematics and dynamics, control systems, haptics.)
• Strong track record of publishing in top robotics venues (e.g T-RO, RA-L, T-M, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, RSS, …)
• Solid programming skills in C++ or Python and strong familiarity with ROS.
• Self-motivated to advance the project and deliver on time.
• Strong written and oral communication skills including development and delivery of presentations, papers, and technical documents.