Robotics Autonomy Engineer — Whole-Body Manipulation

FieldAI

Irvine (CA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

FieldAI's Irvine team is building embodied autonomy by deploying robust sensing, planning, and manipulation on real robots in real environments. As a Robotics Autonomy Engineer - Manipulation, you will lead whole-body control for humanoids and arm-equipped quadrupeds and bring fielded capabilities from concept to hardware.

You will work with perception, locomotion, and systems engineers to deploy learning-based and model-based policies, validate on hardware, and iterate from simulation to actual

Qualifications

Master's degree in Robotics, CS, or related field required or equivalent.
2+ years of real-robot manipulation deployment experience required (preferred).
Hands-on experience with robot arms, hands, or grippers on humanoids or quadrupeds.

Responsibilities

Develop whole-body control and manipulation for humanoids and quadrupeds.
Translate field scenarios from concept to hardware execution.
Integrate perception, locomotion, and manipulation with learning-based policies.
Train manipulation policies from demonstrations and adapt VLA models to robots.

Skills

Robot manipulation

Whole-body control

Python

C++

ROS/ROS2

Machine learning

Perception integration

Linux development

Kinematics & dynamics

Model predictive control

Education

Master's degree in Robotics or related field

PhD strongly preferred

Tools

MuJoCo

Drake

Isaac Lab

ONNX Runtime

TensorRT

Job description

You will work with perception, locomotion, and systems engineers to deploy learning-based and model-based policies, validate on hardware, and iterate from simulation to actual

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