Senior Robotics AI Engineer

Senior Robotics AI Engineer

BMW Group

Munich, Germany

What you will do

• You create advanced AI approaches for general-purpose robotics, with a focus on robotic foundation models;
• Furthermore, you train, finetune, evaluate, and deploy models such as vision-language-action architectures;
• You build scalable data and training pipelines that unify data from robot fleets, simulation, and synthetic sources;
• You integrate models into complete robotic systems using ROS 2, real-time controllers, and manufacturing IT environments;
• Additionally, you define and enforce performance, safety, and security standards, including monitoring for latency, drift, bias, and hallucinations;
• You work closely with platform, data, and production teams;
• Last but not least, you guide and develop engineers and researchers.

What you bring

• University degree (Master’s or PhD) in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, or related field;
• 5+ years in robotics or applied ML with production deployments in manipulation or mobile robotics;
• Deep expertise in foundation models, specifically, multimodal, reasoning and vision-language-action models, diffusion models, and modern finetuning methods (PEFT, DPO, RLHF);
• Strong programming skills in Python and C++ and experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch or JAX, CUDA);
• Hands-on experience with industrial or research robots and simulators (e.g., ROS 2, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo); knowledge of kinematics, motion planning, and control;
• Publications, patents, or open-source contributions are a plus.