Lecturer/Snr Lecturer (Robotics & Embodied AI) - School of IT

[What the role is]

As academic staff, you will play an active role in the academic, professional and personal development of your learners to prepare them for work & life.

[What you will be working on]

• •As academic staff, you will play an active role in the academic, professional, and personal development of your learners to prepare them for work and life.
• •What you will be working on
• •Design, evaluate, and enhance course curricula, and co-develop training content with industry partners to ensure relevance to evolving industry needs.
• •Teach and supervise project for PET and CET courses, including professional short courses.
• •Spearhead and identify new opportunities, initiatives, and collaborations with the industry.
• •Plan, lead, manage, and undertake Embodied AI projects with industry partners.

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[What we are looking for]

• •At least 2 years of relevant working experience in Robotics and Embodied/Physical AI.
• •Relevant qualifications in Robotics, Mechanical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or related domains of study.
• •Technical expertise and track record in the following areas (ideally two or more)
• •Robotics Training Data Pipeline: Data acquisition for robot training, synchronization, calibration, evaluation harnesses and simulation data pipelines
• •Perception and Sensor Fusion: 3D scene understanding, manipulation-centric perception
• •Simulation: digital twin creation for robot training, synthetic data generation, sim-to-real transfer, familiarity with Isaac Sim
• •Policy Learning and foundation models: Imitation and reinforcement learning, cross-embodiment generalisation, vision-language action and world action models
• •System Integration and Deployment: ROS2 systems integration, runtime robustness, safety and field deployment optimization

• •Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to demonstrate empathy and connect effectively with diverse learners.
• •Candidates with practical experience in designing and implementing embodied AI solutions in an industry setting would be advantageous.