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The Principal Applied Scientist - Robotics serves as a senior technical leader within the robotics, perception, and embodied AI team to develop capabilities for commercially viable robotic systems. This role involves partnering with science, software engineering, product, and hardware teams to translate ambiguous requirements into research roadmaps and production-ready solutions. Day-to-day responsibilities include leading research programs for multi-sensor fusion, real-time signal processing, object detection, and action-conditioned planning while managing the full lifecycle from data collection to deployment. The role requires expertise in machine learning, computer vision, reinforcement learning, and multimodal AI systems. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in Python, C++, PyTorch, and ROS. The work focuses on solving complex problems in robot perception, scene understanding, and autonomous decision-making to ensure robust, reliable performance in real-world environments through advanced sensor integration and sophisticated model optimization.
What does a Applied Scientist earn?
Median $208800 from 47 postings across 10 companies.
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