Research Engineer - Training Large Behavior Models with Reinforcement Learning (EG16, f/m/div.)

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Responsibilities

As a research engineer in the semantic understanding and reasoning group (CR/AIR4) at Bosch Corporate Research, you will develop next‑generation methods for training large behavior models for intelligent cyber‑physical systems. Your work will focus on how large‑scale AI models can acquire robust, generalisable, and goal‑directed behaviours through reinforcement learning, multimodal experience, and interaction with learned or simulated environments.

A central part of the role is the use of world models as a foundation for training and validating these systems. In this context, you will investigate how predictive models of environment dynamics, latent state, and agent‑environment interaction can support policy learning, planning, behaviour synthesis, and evaluation. This includes leveraging world‑model‑based rollouts for scalable training, using imagined trajectories for efficient policy improvement, and developing validation frameworks that assess generalisation, robustness, and safety before real‑world deployment.

Your work will bridge foundational research and practical implementation, and will contribute to the design of architectures that connect representation learning, latent dynamics modelling, reinforcement learning, and large‑scale behaviour modelling. Building the infrastructure needed for pre‑training, simulation‑based learning, fine‑tuning, and benchmarking in Bosch‑relevant environments is also part of this role.

The application space spans a broad range of Bosch domains, including robotics, industrial automation, automated driving, and intelligent building or energy systems. You will collaborate closely with AI researchers, robotics experts, control engineers, and domain specialists to ensure that the developed methods are scientifically strong and strategically relevant for real‑world Bosch systems.

Your contributions will help establish core Bosch capabilities in scalable behaviour learning, model‑based reinforcement learning, and physically grounded AI systems that can be trained, validated, and adapted efficiently across applications.

Education

• excellent MSc in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, Control, or related technical fields
• PhD in Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Generative AI, or related areas preferred
• strong publication record in leading AI, machine learning, and robotics venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CoRL, RSS, ICRA, AAAI, IJCAI, or similar

Experience and Knowledge

• Reinforcement Learning & Behaviour Learning

• expertise in reinforcement learning and sequential decision‑making for complex environments
• experience with model‑based, offline, hierarchical, imitation, or constrained RL
• training large‑scale behaviour or policy models from multimodal data and interaction
• designing methods for long‑horizon optimisation, generalisation, and robust adaptation
• strong interest in behaviour validation, robustness testing, sim‑to‑real, and safety

• solid understanding of world models, latent dynamics, and sequence or generative models
• using predictive models for imagination‑based training, rollouts, and planning
• experience with latent‑state modelling, uncertainty‑aware prediction, and validation
• interest in connecting data‑driven learning with physically grounded reasoning

• experience with large‑scale deep learning and transformer‑based or multimodal models
• representation learning across visual, temporal, action, language, or sensor modalities
• interest in large behaviour models as transferable, reusable AI components
• linking large‑model training with policy learning and environment interaction

• strong Python skills and experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
• experience with simulation platforms (e.g., Isaac Sim, CARLA, MuJoCo, Habitat)
• familiarity with distributed training, benchmarking, and reproducible pipelines
• experience with Docker, Git, CI/CD, and multi‑GPU or cloud infrastructure

Personality and Working Practice: you bring a strong scientific mindset with a proven publication record in top‑tier AI and robotics venues; you are able to translate cutting‑edge research into practical, value‑creating innovations and connect foundational AI methods with Bosch‑relevant challenges and application scenarios; you have a collaborative mindset and enjoy working across AI research, robotics, control, within engineering teams.

Languages: fluent English skills written and spoken, German is a plus.

We offer flexible working models: from various part‑time options to mobile working and job sharing. Feel free to contact us.

Diversity and inclusion are not just trends for us but are firmly anchored in our corporate culture. Therefore, we welcome all applications, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, ethnic origin or sexual identity.