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Founding Research Engineer - Mobile Manipulation
Palo Alto, CA
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Founding Research Engineer - Mobile Manipulation
Palo Alto, CA
Define and build the mobile manipulation stack that enables robots to move, interact with objects, and recover safely in dynamic manufacturing environments.
What you will do
- Develop generalizable manipulation policies for grasping, insertion, and tool use.
- Build robust control, compliance, and recovery strategies for contact-rich tasks.
- Train, deploy, and improve policies through robot data, simulation, hardware testing, and failure analysis.
What you are great at
- Hands-on experience deploying manipulation policies on physical robots.
- Strong fundamentals in kinematics, control, motion planning, and trajectory optimization.
- Experience with C++, ROS or ROS2, and simulators such as MuJoCo or Isaac Lab.
Founding Software Engineer - Autonomy Systems
Palo Alto, CA
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Founding Software Engineer - Autonomy Systems
Palo Alto, CA
Build the production autonomy stack that gives robots a reliable understanding of dynamic 3D environments, with an initial focus on perception.
What you will do
- Build production-quality autonomy and perception components for real robots.
- Diagnose cross-module failures using visualization, logs, and robot data.
- Balance accuracy, latency, compute, and robustness through hardware experiments and field testing.
What you are great at
- Strong C++ and Python skills with experience writing production robotics software.
- Hands-on experience deploying and testing autonomy on physical robots and sensors.
- Solid robotics fundamentals and familiarity with ROS2 or similar middleware.