What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Engineer, Embodied AI position at Ant Group?
Responsibilities
- Conduct research and development focused on robot perception, control, task planning, and model training to transition intelligent agents from the digital world to the physical world.
- Design, train, evaluate, and deploy learning-based visuomotor policies for mobile, bimanual, dexterous, and loco-manipulation.
- Apply and extend techniques, including behavior cloning, reinforcement learning, and VLA reasoning.
- Contribute to building the full pipeline, from data collection on real robots to model training, evaluation, and deployment.
- Work closely with simulation and digital twin tools where useful, while prioritizing real-world performance and transfer.
- Write high-quality, well-tested software that runs reliably on physical robots.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a highly technical field such as computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, or a related field.
- Experience with robotics, control, reinforcement learning, or multimodal learning.
- Experience with physical robots, simulation, teleoperation, or manipulation.
- Passion for building autonomous robots that operate in the real world.
- Proficiency in Python and/or C for robotics and machine learning systems.
Bonus Qualifications
- Publication record in top robotics, computer vision, or machine learning conferences or journals.
- Hands-on experience developing and deploying robot learning systems on real robots.
- Deep understanding of compliance control, such as impedance or admittance control.