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Research Engineer, Robotics & Embodied AI

Meta· Artificial Intelligence
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ZurichFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Role focusing on taking foundation models for robotic manipulation onto real hardware, covering the full robotics stack from hardware bring-up to teleoperation, data collection, and running learned policies on real robots; involves prototyping with researchers, running experiments, and building repeatable tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Build, operate, and maintain robot platforms for teleoperation and deployment
  • Deploy learned policies on real robots and optimize their performance on-robot
  • Work with researchers to design experiments and measure how well policies work on real hardware
  • Debug failures across hardware, perception, data, and policies
  • Turn research results into working prototypes
  • Build tooling that makes experiments repeatable
  • Publish research results in top conferences and release code that contributes to the field of robotics

Qualifications

  • PhD in robotics, computer vision, machine learning, or a related field (currently has, or is in the process of obtaining)
  • Industry experience with modern, general-purpose robot platforms
  • Hands-on experience bringing up, calibrating, and debugging a new robot platform from scratch
  • Experience running learned policies on real robots and improving their performance
  • First-author publications at ICRA, CoRL, RSS, IROS, or CVPR, or widely used open-source contributions
  • Proficient in Python and PyTorch

Skills

Required:PhD or progress toward PhD in relevant fieldIndustry experience with modern robot platformsPythonPyTorchPublications or open-source contributions
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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