Senior Applied AI Engineer

Headquartered in Los Angeles, GrayMatter Robotics is a well-capitalized AI robotics startup serving the manufacturing industry. We empower shop floor workers with our smart robots that assist with tedious and ergonomically challenging tasks. You will join the Special Projects: AI team at GrayMatter Robotics, responsible for designing, building, and operationalizing AI capabilities across GMR’s products and customer deployments.

Requirements

• Design, implement, and train state-of-the-art AI models for perception, inspection, decision-making, and control in real-world robotic manufacturing systems.
• Lead the development of simulation-based tooling used across a broad range of AI use cases at GMR.
• Own and advance synthetic data generation pipelines, leveraging generative AI techniques for complex 3D geometry and environment, physics-based simulation, and image data.
• Develop and deploy multi-modal inspection and health monitoring systems, integrating vision, 3D sensing, force/torque, and other sensor modalities.
• Bridge the gap between simulation and reality, ensuring models trained in simulation transfer robustly to physical robotic cells.
• Optimize, deploy, and maintain ML models on production robotic systems, considering latency, reliability, and hardware constraints.
• Troubleshoot complex, cross-disciplinary issues spanning ML models, simulation environments, robotics software, sensors, and hardware.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits
• 401(k) plan + employer match
• Unlimited PTO
• Regular offsite events
• Discretionary fund for enhancing productivity