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Humanoid Engineer, Manipulation

FieldAI· Engineering – Mission, Interaction & Intelligence
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Irvine, CAFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Role focused on developing, integrating, testing, and improving manipulation capabilities for humanoid robots, interfacing with perception, planning, control, teleoperation, and field deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and evaluate humanoid manipulation and loco-manipulation behaviors on real hardware
  • Integrate perception, planning, control, grasping, whole-body coordination, and task execution into deployable robot workflows
  • Run hardware experiments, analyze failures, and improve manipulation reliability across diverse objects, environments, and tasks
  • Partner with system integration, hardware, field application, and testing teams to move capabilities from prototype to deployment
  • Support teleoperation, data collection, and human-in-the-loop workflows for improving manipulation performance
  • Build tools, metrics, and evaluation protocols for manipulation success, repeatability, failure recovery, and operator usability
  • Debug cross-domain issues spanning software, sensors, actuators, end-effectors, calibration, timing, and field conditions

Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field preferred; BS considered with a demonstrated track record of hands-on robotics work across multiple physical systems — research projects, competition robotics, or internships with daily hardware exposure
  • Hands-on experience with robotic manipulation, humanoids, mobile manipulation, dexterous hands, or contact-rich robotics — must include physical hardware; simulation-only backgrounds will not be considered
  • Strong foundation in kinematics, dynamics, motion planning, control, and real robot experimentation
  • Experience with C++, Python, ROS/ROS2, and Linux in a real robotics codebase
  • Demonstrated ability to iterate quickly from experiment to working behavior on physical hardware; comfortable running daily hardware experiments, analyzing failures, and adapting approach in real-time
  • Background appropriate for a junior-to-mid engineer; fresh MS and PhD graduates welcome

Skills

Required:Robotics manipulationKinematics and dynamicsMotion planning and controlReal robot experimentationC++, Python, ROS/ROS2, Linux
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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