Robotics Engineer - Manipulation focus
General Robotics4 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design robotics methods, tools, and infrastructure advancing manipulation and foundation-model capabilities.
- Define research goals and conduct end-to-end experiments, including implementation, evaluation, and reporting.
- Train, adapt, and deploy manipulation foundation models, reinforcement-learning systems, and agentic robot policies.
- Build synthetic-data generation, data-collection, training, and evaluation pipelines using high-fidelity simulation and sim-to-real workflows.
- Develop extensible, documented, production-quality code usable by engineers outside the team.
- Contribute to publications and open-source releases.
- Partner with customers to move manipulation capabilities from prototype to deployed product.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Research experience in machine learning, robotics, and computer vision.
- Experience developing robotics algorithms or machine-learning models at scale.
- Programming experience in Python and C++, with a good understanding of deep-learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
- Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at hire and maintain it during employment.
- Preferred qualifications include an MS or PhD, direct robot-learning or computer-vision research, first-author publications, manipulation-policy experience, simulator experience, perception-stack familiarity, and understanding of latency, throughput, compute, and memory constraints.
- Candidates must currently be based in and authorized to work in the United States.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About General Robotics
General Robotics builds a software platform for general-purpose robot intelligence that composes modular AI skills for sensing, reasoning, and safe, real-world performance. The company sells its platform and developer tools to robotics OEMs, integrators, and enterprises deploying mobile or fixed robots across varied environments. Privately held and founded in 2023, it is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.