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Research, design, and train foundation models for robotics; align text-based reasoning with low-level control policies; evaluate zero-shot generalization; run experiments; integrate models into robotic systems and present findings externally.

Design and implement high-fidelity spatial mapping and real-time object recognition pipelines. Integrate vision systems with robotic manipulation and navigation controls. Train and fine-tune Vision-Language-Action models and work with multimodal spatial AI frameworks and robotic hardware.

Design and architect multi-agent orchestration frameworks, build tool-calling pipelines and reasoning loops, and optimize latency and token usage for real-time agentic workflows and autonomous operations.

Design and implement advanced control algorithms for bipedal locomotion and manipulation, train RL policies in simulation, deploy on hardware, and perform sim-to-real transfer and gait/kinematics analysis.

Design and implement multi-agent pathfinding algorithms to avoid fleet deadlocks, build low-latency Robot-to-Cloud and Robot-to-Robot communication protocols, and develop cloud dashboards for fleet monitoring and teleoperation handoffs.

Run adversarial tests on language and multimodal models, build guardrails and real-time filters for autonomous tool use, and support RLHF alignment and constitutional AI development to ensure safe AI deployment.

Lead product strategy and roadmap for AI and robotics products, translating VLA and agentic RAG breakthroughs into customer value, defining safety/usability/performance metrics, working with enterprise adopters, and driving cross-functional delivery.

Optimize, compress, and distill large language and vision models for on-device inference. Build pipelines for distillation and hardware-specific compilation, and benchmark performance across NPU/GPU architectures.

Design, orchestrate, and optimize large-scale LLM pre-training across 1,000+ GPUs. Implement 3D parallelism, manage GPU clusters (SLURM/Kubernetes), optimize InfiniBand/RDMA networking and memory, and automate checkpointing and failure recovery for long training runs.

Develop multimodal intent-recognition models from gaze, gesture, and voice; implement socially aware navigation respecting personal space; design robot visual and auditory UI feedback; run user studies and rapidly prototype AI-driven voice and visual interfaces.