LG Electronics
Staff/Sr. Staff, Physical AI Researcher (LG Emerging Tech Lab)
$200K–$350K
Santa Clara, CA · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of industry experience; 1+ years leading technically ambitious research projects.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
About the job
Leads Physical AI research and a research team to develop embodied robot intelligence and bring it into LG robot platforms and products.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and lead fundamental and applied research in multimodal robot foundation models and physical intelligence.
- Lead research collaborations and coordinate with LG and external partners to integrate robotics technologies into the LG ecosystem.
- Define project scope, goals, and deliverables, aligning research with business objectives and real-world robotic systems.
What they ask for
- PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, with a strong publication record.
- Deep research and engineering expertise in one or more listed areas, including robot foundation models, world models, spatial intelligence, multimodal representation learning, or learning from demonstrations and self-play.
- Hands-on experience integrating AI models with real robotic systems and sensors.
- Experience with physics-based simulation platforms such as PyBullet, MuJoCo, or Isaac Sim.
Pay
$200,000 — $350,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
PyBullet, MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, RGB, LiDAR
AI focus
Research and development of embodied intelligence, including multimodal robot foundation models, world-action models, generalist dexterity, and agentic robot orchestration.
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