Founding Robotics Engineer – AI-Driven Food Robot

Merista; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 95.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Merista builds the physical AI workforce for food production. This founding team robotics hire, reporting to the CTO, owns the robot’s mind, and everything between intent and motion. Full-time and on-site in Barcelona.

You’ll lead technical choices across manipulation, learning, and control, collaborating with perception and mechatronics engineers to define interfaces. You’ll own the path from policy output to reliable motion, including real-time execution, failure detection, and recovery.

Formación

• Hands-on experience building and running control software on real robot arms.
• Understanding of control-loop timing, latency, and fault handling.
• Experience with robot learning, data quality, evaluation and deployment.
• Strong Python and systems debugging skills.
• Ability to design useful experiments and learn from failures.

Responsabilidades

• Execution and feedback control: trajectory generation, contact-rich manipulation, force control, and portion-weight feedback.
• Connect policy outputs to real-time control, manage inference latency and timing, and handle failed actions.
• Failure detection and recovery: detect failed transfers, bring robot to safe state, and resume work.
• Manipulation policies and learning: decide policy outputs and training/evaluation methods.
• Data and evaluation: capture demonstrations, failures, and recoveries, and build repeatable tests.

Conocimientos

Robot control

Trajectory execution

Control loops

Robot learning

Python

Systems debugging

Experimental design

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Descripción del empleo

Merista builds the physical AI workforce for food production. This founding team robotics hire, reporting to the CTO, owns the robot’s mind, and everything between intent and motion. Full-time and on-site in Barcelona.

You’ll lead technical choices across manipulation, learning, and control, collaborating with perception and mechatronics engineers to define interfaces. You’ll own the path from policy output to reliable motion, including real-time execution, failure detection, and recovery.