Company Description
We are an early-stage robotics startup working on building general-purpose mobile robots that can do daily manipulation tasks. We are looking for a creative, skilled, and motivated Robotics Manipulation Engineer to join our founding team in advancing robot manipulation capabilities. This is a full-time on-site role for a Robotics Manipulation Engineer in Santa Clara, CA.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and deploy state-of-the-art learning-based manipulation algorithms on real robots.
- Build and ship reliable and high-quality software for robots.
- Work with other teams to develop a diverse set of robust manipulation skills for robots.
Qualifications
- Graduate degree in Robotics, Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, etc., or equivalent research experience.
- Passionate about working with robots and building robot products.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Outstanding research/engineering skills for rapid research prototyping, open-source code release, or product development.
- Proficient with Python; C++ and CUDA experiences are a plus.
- Proficient with deep learning libraries such as PyTorch/TensorFlow/Jax.
- Experience with real robot experiments.
- Experienced with robot simulators such as Isaac Gym/ Isaac Sim/ SAPIEN/ MuJoCo/Drake, etc.
- Experienced with robot learning techniques (reinforcement learning, imitation learning, etc.)
- A track record of research excellence with your work published in top conferences and journals such as Science Robotics, IJRR, RSS, CoRL, ICRA, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, etc.
Bonus Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with robot learning algorithm development, training foundation models, LLM, and large generative models is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with real robot arms/hands/legs is a plus.
- Deep knowledge of robotics (kinematics, dynamics, control, SLAM, etc.) is a plus.
- Experience with deploying AI models onto NVIDIA Jetson/DRIVE embedded systems is a plus.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $85,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Compensation package:
Experience level:
Ability to Commute:
- Santa Clara, CA (Preferred)
Ability to Relocate:
- Santa Clara, CA: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person