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Research Engineer, Robotics - Meta
Research Engineer
Senior Research Engineer specializing in robotics, responsible for architecting and building a custom CUDA‑based compute renderer that powers large‑scale robot learning and visual perception pipelines.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and develop a high‑performance CUDA compute renderer tailored for robotic manipulation tasks.
- Integrate the renderer with existing robot learning frameworks and simulation environments.
- Optimize GPU pipelines for real‑time visual fidelity and scalability across large datasets.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary researchers to translate visual algorithms into production‑ready code.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation and provide technical guidance to engineering teams.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in CUDA programming and GPU architecture.
- Proficiency in C++ (and optionally Python) for systems‑level development.
- Experience building or extending rendering engines or compute pipelines for robotics or simulation.
- Solid understanding of robotics perception, computer vision, and machine‑learning workflows.
- Track record of delivering complex, high‑performance software in a research or production setting.