AI Research And Development Engineer (Physical AI)

Location: Must be based in and work from the Netherlands

Salary: €74,990–€139,760

Company

A global leader in computing technology driving business strategy and product development for PC platforms and edge computing solutions.

What you will do

• Implement and fine-tune state-of-the-art Vision-Language-Action policies for robotic manipulation.
• Optimize VLA models for edge deployment using graph compilation and precision calibration.
• Develop safety runtimes to manage velocity limits and workspace bounds for real-world operation.
• Build model-agnostic inference APIs to support diverse robotic platforms and hardware backends.
• Support deployment across edge accelerators to ensure broad hardware compatibility.
• Publish research papers contributing to vision, physical AI, and robotic learning.

Requirements

• Must be based in the Netherlands
• Extensive experience with PyTorch and distributed training for large-scale models.
• Hands-on experience with robotic systems, including industrial robots, EMR, and humanoid robots.
• Deep understanding of VLA architectures and imitation learning techniques.
• Technical expertise in model export, graph compilation, and precision calibration.
• Familiarity with inference runtimes like OpenVINO, ONNX Runtime, or ExecuTorch.

Nice to have

• PhD in robotics, machine learning, or computer vision.
• Contributions to open-source robotics or embodied AI projects.
• Background in low-level performance profiling and hardware-aware optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to build open-source tools for the global robotics community.
• Work on the full pipeline from model training to physical hardware control.
• Focus on real-world utility and performance over theoretical metrics.
• Competitive total compensation package.