Robotics Engineer, Manipulation
San Mateo, CA$100k - $300kfull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Robotics Engineer role focused on developing and deploying software for manipulation systems, integrating controls, perception, and planning, and deploying learning-based algorithms on real robot hardware.
Responsibilities
- Help design algorithms, models, and techniques for various robotic manipulation tasks.
- Design hardware and software systems for various robotic manipulation tasks.
- Write controllers and perception stacks for real-world robotic deployment.
- Write and maintain production-level C++ and Python code for our robotic manipulation platforms.
- Collaborate with machine learning engineers to deploy state-of-the-art models on our robots.
- Continuously improve and optimize robotic software for performance, reliability, and scalability.
Qualifications
- BS, MS or higher degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in designing robotic manipulation systems and deploying software on real robots.
- Experience with writing controllers and knowledge of robotics (e.g., kinematics, dynamics, control, motion planning, SLAM).
- Proficiency in Python and at least one deep learning library such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, etc.
- Systems-level understanding of the various software modules and their interfaces in a robotic application (ROS/ROS2, simulators, etc.).
- Publications at top-tier ML, robotics or CV conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, RSS, ICRA, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV).
- Experience with designing custom robot hardware solutions.
- Proficiency with various robot learning techniques (RL, imitation learning, etc.).
- Experience working with modern computer vision algorithms, sensors (LiDAR, camera, radar, etc.), 3D (meshes, point clouds, etc.), segmentation, tracking, object detection.
Skills
Required:C++PythonROS/ROS2KinematicsMotion PlanningDeep Learning
Nice to have:Computer Vision
Last updated Jul 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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