ADVANCED ROBOTICS SPECIALIST

Company Description

CIM (Competence Industry Manufacturing) – CIM – is one of the eight nationally recognized competence centers with high specialization, promoted by the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE), now the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy. It is recognized as a center of excellence in the  digital transformation  of companies, focusing on the dissemination of  Industry 5.0  technologies and skills.

Established by the  Polytechnic and the University of Turin , supported as founding members by 21 major Italian and international private companies , and qualified by key industrial players as  activity partners , CIM assists companies in their journey towards technological, process, and product maturity, increasing their digital and sustainable competitiveness.

CIM’s Advanced Robotics unit will drive the adoption of advanced robotics by empowering organizations to accelerate digital transformation , enhance competitiveness , and achieve seamless human-machine collaboration . The program aims to make robots more accessible, adaptable, and impactful in real-world applications. The main market segments are manufacturing, agriculture, food and logistics.

The Advanced Robotics unit addresses the next generation of robotic systems that combine sophisticated hardware with intelligent software to perform complex tasks autonomously , safely , and adaptively in dynamic and unstructured environments . These robots are capable of perception, learning, decision-making, and physical interaction, often in collaboration with humans and / or other robots.

Position Summary

The Advanced Robotics Specialist will focus on developing technologies for one of the following robot categories 1) Mobile Manipulators , 2) Humanoids and/or 3) Aerial Vehicles . The specialist’s domain will be defined based on technical background, experience, preferences, and project priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop modular robotics software using ROS2 and modern software architecture.
• Develop AI-based perception systems for robotics, including computer vision, object detection, tracking, segmentation, depth perception, and scene understanding.
• Work on robot learning approaches such as imitation learning, reinforcement learning, behavior cloning, and learning from demonstrations.
• Explore the use of foundation models, vision-language models, multimodal models, and vision-language-action models for robotics applications.
• Develop data collection and training pipelines using real robot data, teleoperation data, simulation data, and synthetic data.
• Use simulation environments such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo, or similar tools to test and validate robotic behaviors.
• Integrate AI modules with classical robotics components such as SLAM, localization, navigation, motion planning, and task planning.
• Deploy and optimize robotic AI applications on edge computing platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson.
• Contribute to applied research projects, technical reports, demonstrators, and scientific publications.
• Collaborate with CIM’s multi-disciplinary teams (Additive Manufacturing, Digital Factory, Innovation, Training).
• Support training activities and internal knowledge