Research scientist in AI for Robotics F/M

About NAVER LABS Europe

NAVER LABS Europe is part of NAVER’s R&D division, a global tech company offering services such as search, commerce, content, fintech, robotics, and cloud.

About the Team

The Spatial AI team researches AI for robotics and spatially aware agents, building next-generation agents capable of robust high-level reasoning in complex real-world environments. Our focus includes AI for manipulation and mobile manipulation, learning through interaction to acquire diverse, whole-body, contact-rich skills for long-horizon tasks. We collaborate across computer vision and robotics teams to link fundamental research with operational problems, publishing in leading conferences and contributing to emerging AI-driven robotics services.

Position

Early-career researchers and recent PhD graduates are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on machine learning approaches for robotics.
• Develop new models and algorithms in robotics, perception (computer vision), and sequential decision taking.
• Design and implement prototypes and proof-of-concept systems to evaluate new ideas and algorithmic approaches.
• Run and analyze large-scale experiments both in simulation and on real robotics platforms with a hands‑on approach.
• Contribute to publications in leading conferences and journals in machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotics.

Required Qualifications

• PhD in machine learning, robotics, computer vision, or a related field.
• Strong background in machine learning and AI for robotics.
• Excellent programming skills in Python and experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating machine learning models, especially policies for robotics tasks (manipulation, navigation, mobile manipulation).
• Experience with large-scale experiments, simulation environments, or real-world robotics environments.
• Strong interest in research problems and their application to real-life industrial scenarios.
• Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary research environments.
• Publications in leading conferences in machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision or robotics (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV/ECCV, IROS, ICRA).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with deep reinforcement learning.
• A solid background in the fundamentals of robotics (e.g., kinematics and dynamics, control, path planning and physics simulation).

What we offer

• A collaborative environment dedicated to ambitious, multidisciplinary projects that translate advanced research into impactful, real-world solutions.
• Flexible work/life balance.
• An inclusive and diverse workplace where all qualified candidates are considered fairly, regardless of background.

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