menlo - Robotics Researcher, Manipulation
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Requirements
• Experience with diffusion policies, transformer-based policy architectures, or large-scale foundation 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
Responsibilities
• Research, develop, and deploy 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 scale • Train manipulation policies using imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or hybrid approaches -- and iterate until they work in the real world • Integrate manipulation with Asimov's perception stack and broader autonomy pipeline • Systematically diagnose failure modes on hardware and drive improvement • Contribute to open-source releases of manipulation research and tooling • Strong foundations in robotics, control theory, and motion planning • Hands-on experience building and deploying manipulation systems on real robotic platforms • Proficiency in Python and C++; experience with PyTorch or JAX • Track 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
Benefits
• This is applied robotics research with real stakes -- your code runs on a physical humanoid. We open-source aggressively, so your contributions reach the broader community. You will work alongside researchers and engineers across the full stack, in a team that values shipping over presenting. Competitive compensation and equity. • You don't need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect everyone at Menlo to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement. When that's the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don't treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on. • Equal Opportunity and Accommodations
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