Expert Robotics AI (f/m/div.)

About the job

• As part of our team, you will own the robotics AI architecture and technical hypotheses, selecting world-action and video-action models, VLA policies, embodied reasoning, or classical planning according to task, data, and execution constraints.
• You will design heterogeneous systems that connect learned models with Code-as-Policy programs, Graph-as-Policy structures, and reusable skills. You specify state and action representations, interfaces, execution checks, as well as recovery behavior.
• Additionally, you will implement and adapt models and agentic robot programs. You investigate predictive dynamics, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or feedback-driven skill refinement, then justify your choices with baselines and ablations.
• You will also define evaluation across simulation and physical rollouts, including held-out tasks, embodiment transfer, intervention rate, latency, recovery, and repeatability. In doing so, you distinguish first-attempt success from results achieved through retries.
• Furthermore, you will collaborate closely with the deployment engineer to turn the architecture into a functioning embodiment. Together, you diagnose model, planning, or control failures and revise the design based on measured robot behavior.
• Using the Agentic AI Software Factory, you will drive implementation and experiments while validating generated code and experimental conclusions. You maintain reproducible artifacts, versioned skills, and accountable release decisions.

• Education: completed Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Control Engineering or a related field
• Experience and Knowledge:
• substantial hands-on contributions to robotics AI systems on physical robots, with defensible architecture decisions and reproducible results
• deep expertise in predictive world-/video-action modeling or agentic robot planning and Code-as-Policy, integrating learned and classical components; relevant experience may include GaP, CaP-X, or ASPIRE/ENPIRE-style feedback loops; comparable implementations are equally accepted, and mastery of every named framework is not required
• proven expertise in action grounding, temporal consistency, uncertainty, and failure recovery
• strong Python and PyTorch/JAX skills in training/adaptation, inference, and experiment design, combined with the ability to inspect C++ and robot-control interfaces
• demonstrated own code or model contributions, supported by meaningful baselines and measured hardware outcomes
• terminology familiarity or model-API integration alone is insufficient
• Personality and Working Practice: you are an architect who writes and debugs code, challenges weak assumptions, and follows ideas through to physical evidence
• Enthusiasm: building robot intelligence that combines prediction, reasoning and reliable execution
• Languages: very good spoken and written German and English

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Permanent, open-ended position in the engineering organization for Robert Bosch Robotics GmbH.
Apply with your CV and two concise technical case studies: your contribution, architecture, implementation, evaluation and failure analysis. Include robot results and code, papers or demonstrations where shareable; anonymized technical accounts are accepted.
We offer flexible working models: from part-time options to mobile working and job sharing. Diversity and inclusion are firmly anchored in our culture.

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