Robotics Engineer, Manipulation
Skild AI · San Mateo, CA · India · Pittsburgh · San Francisco
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Roboticsonsite$100k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Deploy learning-based algorithms on real robots for daily manipulation tasks.
- Help build general-purpose robotic intelligence that adapts to unseen scenarios.
- Design hardware and software systems for varied robotic manipulation tasks.
Ideal candidate
Versatile robotics engineer passionate about deploying manipulation systems on real hardware who thrives collaborating with researchers and exploring uncharted challenges.
Requirements
- BS, MS or higher degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience designing robotic manipulation systems and deploying software on real robots
- Experience writing controllers and knowledge of kinematics, dynamics, control, motion planning, SLAM
- Proficiency in Python and a deep learning library such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX
- Systems-level understanding of software modules and interfaces in robotic applications (ROS/ROS2, simulators)
- Publications at top-tier ML, robotics or CV conferences
- Experience designing custom robot hardware solutions
- Proficiency with robot learning techniques (RL, imitation learning)
- Experience with modern computer vision algorithms, sensors, 3D, segmentation, tracking, object detection
Lab profile
About Skild AI
Building general-purpose robotic intelligence that adapts robustly to unseen scenarios.
What they build
- General-purpose robotic intelligence
- Scalable foundation model for robot deployment
Known for
- Large-scale data-driven machine learning
- Robust adaptation to unseen scenarios
- Computer vision and manipulation
- Simulation and embedded systems