Scene Understanding for Mobile Robots

Job Number: P23F09

Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) in San Jose, California, is seeking a highly motivated Research Scientist to contribute scene understanding technologies for autonomous mobile robots. A successful candidate will focus on the research and development of scene understanding algorithms and will have experience with one or more of the following: behavior understanding, social cue recognition, intention prediction, action anticipation, important agent identification, motion forecasting, and multi-modal event reasoning.

San Jose, CA

Key Responsibilities

• Research on cutting-edge scene understanding algorithms from visual inputs.
• Design and implement deep learning algorithms to represent semantic information as quantitative information and vice versa.
• Publish scholarly articles to top-tier conferences and journals in robotics, computer vision, and machine learning.
• Collaborate with a dynamic team of researchers and engineers to integrate the algorithms with motion planning and controls.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Ph.D. in computer science, robotics, or a related field
• Experience with deep learning and deep learning platforms (e.g., Tensorflow, Pytorch)
• Strong programming skills in Python or C
• Experience with training and testing machine learning algorithms
  
  

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with LLMs and Foundation models
• Familiarity with ROS and traffic simulators (e.g., Carla, Carmaker).
• Experience with developing end-to-end systems.
• Experience with deploying models on a physical (robotic) platform.
• Experience with optimization solvers.
  
  

Years of Work Experience Required: 0