Senior Research Scientist- Robotics AI

Full Time

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Sunnyvale, CA

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Bosch USA

Senior Research Scientist – Robotics AI

Company Description

The Bosch Research and Technology Center North America, with offices in Sunnyvale, California; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Cambridge, Massachusetts, is part of the global Bosch Group, a company with over €70 billion in revenue, 400,000 employees worldwide, a diverse product portfolio, and a history spanning more than 125 years.

The Research and Technology Center North America (RTC-NA) is dedicated to providing technologies and system solutions for various Bosch business fields, primarily in artificial intelligence, energy technologies, internet technologies, circuit design, semiconductors and wireless, and advanced MEMS design.

As part of global research, our AI research in Silicon Valley focuses on Foundation Models, Big Data Visual Analytics, Explainable AI (XAI), Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision and Mixed Reality, Cloud Robotics, Data Science, AI System Engineering, and Time-series Analysis. We develop scalable, intelligent, and trustworthy AIoT solutions for Bosch products and services in application areas such as automated driving, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), robotics, smart manufacturing, enterprise AI, health care, smart home, and building solutions.

Originating from AI research in Silicon Valley, our Intelligent Autonomous Systems group is responsible for enabling future autonomous Bosch products by pushing the boundaries of automated driving, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), robotics, and automation through key innovations in system architecture and AI components. These include methods for motion planning, high-level task planning, and decision making, as well as systems for making these technologies work on real products by building frameworks that take advantage of reliable distributed computing.

We work with internal partners across Bosch business units to transfer our solutions into future products. We also actively collaborate with leading groups in academia and industry to promote research ideas and publish research findings in internationally renowned conferences and journals such as CVPR, ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, and CoRL.

Job Description

As a Senior Research Scientist – Robotics AI, you will contribute to research projects at the forefront of the ADAS/AD industry.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Conduct research and engineering in core AI and machine learning fields to enable Embodied AI, including computer vision, autonomous planning, open-world learning, and related areas, for business domains such as ADAS/AD, industrial automation, and robotics.

  • Push the boundaries of AI-based robotics, incorporating advancements in large vision-language-action models to aid reasoning capabilities and explainability.

  • Collaborate cross-functionally with global research and engineering teams to ensure seamless technology transfer and system integration.

  • Implement research results to solve real-world challenges, ensuring high-quality system integration within Bosch’s existing platforms.

  • Stay at the forefront of innovation by actively engaging with academic and industry communities through conferences, workshops, and technical events.

  • Document and disseminate research findings through high-caliber publications and/or patent submissions.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related discipline, or a Master’s degree with at least 2–4 years of industry experience after graduation.

  • A minimum of 5 years of R&D experience, or an equivalent graduate research background, primarily in AI technologies, including computer vision and robotic or automotive motion and behavioral planning.

  • Proficiency in one or more programming languages commonly used in machine learning, such as Python, C++, or Rust.

  • Strong interpersonal, communication, and teamwork capabilities.

  • Knowledge of major machine learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.

  • Hands-on experience in reinforcement learning for behavior or motion planning, or other applicable contexts, and familiarity with common RL techniques such as PPO, DQN, and DDPG.

  • A strong portfolio of publications in premier machine learning, deep learning, robotics, and computer vision journals and conferences.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with real-world product development and deployment of autonomous systems.

  • Hands-on experience building and applying multimodal transformer-based sequence-to-sequence models, especially multimodal vision-language-action models.

  • Hands-on experience in computer vision and deep learning, with work in any of the following areas:

    • Multimodal transformers

    • Multimodal language models

    • Diffusion models

    • NeRF

    • Gaussian splatting

    • Object detection and segmentation

    • 3D scene understanding

    • Sensor calibration

    • Structure from Motion, or SfM

    • Voxel/BEV grid-based feature representation

Additional Information

We offer a competitive base salary for this position, with a range in California of $185,000–$215,000, along with an annual corporate bonus and a long-term incentive bonus designed to reward sustained impact and contribution over time.

Within the salary range, individual pay is determined based on several factors, including, but not limited to, work experience and job knowledge, complexity of the role, job location, and other relevant considerations.

Your well-being matters at Bosch. We offer a benefits package designed to empower you in every area of your life. This includes premium health coverage, a 401(k) with generous matching, resources for financial planning and goal setting, ample paid time off, parental leave, and comprehensive life and disability protection. Your recruiter can share more details for this position during the interview process.

Learn more about our full benefits offerings by visiting: https://www.myboschbenefits.com/public/welcome.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Bosch is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

Bosch adheres to federal, state, and local laws regarding drug testing. Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a drug screen and background check. Candidates who have been offered the position must pass both screenings before their start date.