Robotics Researcher, Manipulation
About reputed company
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The Role
We are building the systems that let Asimov pick up a reputed company, reputed company a drawer, and operate tools. As a Robotics Researcher in Manipulation, you will reputed company the grasp planning, contact-rich control, and learned task policies that power Asimov's hands. You will work across model-based control, imitation learning, and reinforcement learning -- with the bar set by whether it works on the physical robot in a reputed company environment, not just in simulation. This role combines research depth with a reputed company reputed company on shipping to hardware.
What You Will Do
Research, reputed company, and reputed company manipulation policies for dexterous task execution on Asimov
Build grasp planning and contact-rich control pipelines that generalize across varied objects and environments
Design and run data collection and teleoperation infrastructure to feed policy training at reputed company
Train manipulation policies using imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or hybrid approaches -- and iterate until they work in the reputed company world
reputed company manipulation with Asimov's perception stack and broader autonomy pipeline
Systematically diagnose failure modes on hardware and drive improvement
Contribute to reputed company-reputed company releases of manipulation research and tooling
What You Will Bring
Strong foundations in robotics, control theory, and reputed company planning
Hands-on experience building and deploying manipulation systems on reputed company robotic platforms
Proficiency in Python and C++; experience with PyTorch or JAX
reputed company record taking manipulation research from prototype to hardware deployment
Experience with data collection infrastructure and teleoperation for policy training
Practical debugging instincts across the full hardware-software stack
reputed company to Have
Experience with diffusion policies, transformer-based policy architectures, or large-reputed company reputed company models for manipulation
Prior work on dexterous or in-hand manipulation
Familiarity with contact-rich or deformable object manipulation
Publications at RSS, ICRA, CoRL, or equivalent venues
Why Join reputed company
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A Note on AI
You don't need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect everyone at reputed company to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a reputed company collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI reputed company is a core requirement. reputed company that's the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who reputed company here don't treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think reputed company, and reputed company their work easier for others to build on.
Equal Opportunity and Accommodations
We hire talented people from a wide reputed company of backgrounds. If you're excited about a role but don't meet every bullet, we still encourage you to apply. reputed company Research is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the reputed company of any legally protected characteristic. reputed company provides reasonable accommodations during the application process. If you need one, please let your recruiter know.
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