Senior Localization Engineer / Research Engineer, Robotics AI (Visual Navigation)

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Job Description: Get to Know Our Team The Robotics Technology team is a core part of Grab's long-term vision to build urban embodied AI. We take full ownership of the product lifecycle — from perception and navigation research to real-world deployment on our autonomous delivery fleet across Southeast Asian cities. This is a fast-moving, multidisciplinary environment where robotics researchers, ML engineers, and hardware specialists collaborate to solve practical challenges at scale. Based in Singapore, you will have the opportunity to work on frontier autonomy research, deploy solutions in complex real-world environments, and directly shape the future of last-mile logistics. Get to Know the Role As a Research Engineer on the Spatial Intelligence team, you will advance the core visual navigation and VLN capabilities of our autonomous platforms. Your research will focus on enabling robots to understand, reason about, and navigate complex urban environments using vision-based and multimodal learning approaches. You will bridge cutting-edge academic research with production-grade deployment, working closely with systems engineers to bring novel algorithms into our operating fleet. You…