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Huawei UKRD is seeking exceptional candidates to pursue research in various aspects of robot learning, reinforcement learning and imitation learning.
The successful applicant is expected to develop novel contributions allowing the field to move forward in getting it a step closer towards real-world robots.
Key research questions include but are not limited to real-robot deployment of embodied AI, behavior synthesis from natural language, and foundation models for robots. This is an exceptional opportunity for research while collaborating with a diverse team with backgrounds ranging from robotics, control/planning theory, reinforcement learning to probability and game theory.
These positions involve theoretical advances and aim to apply innovations in the real world. We aim to publish our work in top-tier conferences and journals, including but not limited to TRO, ICRA, RSS, RAL, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, Nature, Science Robotics, and JMLR. Our goal is to contribute to an open and transparent research environment by regularly open-sourcing code of our novel discoveries.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop high-impact research output in the field of robot learning, reinforcement learning, or imitation learning
Write research-level code capable of testing novel ideas and new approaches
Effectively communicate research findings to the team and to the broader community through journal and conference publications
Aid in progressing research fields by open-sourcing code
This job description is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The jobholder will carry out any other duties as may be reasonably required by his/her line manager. The job description and personal specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of Huawei Research and Development UK Limited.
Person Specification:
Required:
PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Exceptional candidates with a masters will be considered.
Papers in top-tier conferences, eg ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, RSS, CoRL, ICRA
Experience with ROS or LCM
Strong understanding of machine learning
Strong programming skills in Python
Experience with PyTorch
Good understanding of transformer architectures and attention mechanisms
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