Robotics Manipulation Engineer (Real-World Deployment)

Perot Jain; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptronik in Sunnyvale, CA, is hiring a Software Engineer - Manipulation to advance learning-based manipulation policies from research to production on real hardware. You will join a team delivering robust, scalable software for delicate interaction tasks on our humanoid robotics platform.

Work with simulation, data, hardware, and systems teams to deploy policies across the fleet, prioritizing safety, reliability, and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Must have MS with 3+ years in Robotics, CS, EE, or related field.
• Proven experience in learning-based manipulation and deploying policies to hardware.
• Strong Python, C++, and PyTorch or JAX; real-time robotics software experience.

Responsibilities

• Implement and deploy state-of-the-art learning-based manipulation policies on real hardware.
• Adapt and improve policies for new tasks and hardware using post-training methods (RL fine-tuning, distillation, DAgger).
• Build and maintain data pipelines for post-training, including teleoperation and demonstrations.
• Drive development from simulation to robust deployment on the robot.
• Develop visuomotor policies for grasping and manipulation with low latency on hardware.
• Define evaluation metrics and regression tests for policy performance in simulation and hardware.
• Collaborate with simulation, data, hardware, and systems teams to diagnose issues and co-develop solutions.
• Maintain high code quality via testing and documentation.

Skills

Manipulation

Learning-Based Control

Software Engineering

Data & Evaluation

Education

MS 3+ years or PhD

Tools

IsaacSim

MuJoCo

Drake

Job description

Apptronik in Sunnyvale, CA, is hiring a Software Engineer - Manipulation to advance learning-based manipulation policies from research to production on real hardware. You will join a team delivering robust, scalable software for delicate interaction tasks on our humanoid robotics platform.

Work with simulation, data, hardware, and systems teams to deploy policies across the fleet, prioritizing safety, reliability, and efficiency.