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Founding Research Engineer - Mobile Manipulation

Sancho
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Redwood City, CAFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Founding member responsible for defining and building the mobile manipulation software stack to enable safe and robust manipulation on a real-world mobile manipulator in dynamic, unstructured environments.

Responsibilities

  • Develop Mobile Manipulation Policies: Design and implement policies that enable a mobile manipulator to perform generalizable skills such as grasping, insertion, and tool use.
  • Develop Control & Recovery Strategies: Develop robust control, compliance, and recovery strategies for contact-rich manipulation on hardware.
  • Data Collection & Policy Deployment: Train, evaluate, and deploy robot policies using teleoperation data, robot logs, and simulation.
  • Task Iteration: Systematically improve task success rates and expand platform generalizability through rigorous testing and failure analysis.

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience deploying robotic manipulation policies on real-world robot systems.
  • Strong robotics fundamentals in kinematics, control, motion planning, and trajectory optimization.
  • Experience in C++, ROS/ROS2, and simulators like MuJoCo or Isaac Lab.
  • Sound technical judgment about when to use a math- or data-driven approach.

Skills

Required:Robotics manipulationKinematicsControlMotion planningTrajectory optimizationC++ROS/ROS2MuJoCo/Isaac Lab
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Physical API for Advanced Manufacturing

Sancho is the physical API for manufacturing, giving robots the intelligence to operate machines and execute fragmented workflows.

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