Robotics Software Engineer: Dexterous Manipulation

Apptronik; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company designing AI-powered robots such as Apollo to assist in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and home environments. The Software Engineer – Dexterous Manipulation will contribute across simulation, hardware, and systems teams to enable high-DOF, multi-fingered hand manipulation on real robots.

The role emphasizes translating state-of-the-art learning-based control into production-grade software that runs in both simulation and on hardware, with

Qualifications

• Experience with multi-fingered grasping and in-hand manipulation.
• Proficiency in RL for robotic control, incl. imitation learning and diffusion policies.
• Strong Python and C++ for real-time robotics software.
• Hands-on experience validating policies in physics simulators.

Responsibilities

• Implement and tune control algorithms for multi-fingered hands.
• Develop manipulation software with low-latency real-time execution.
• Build and refine sim-to-real pipelines and domain randomization.
• Deploy and debug manipulation on physical robots.

Skills

Dexterous manipulation

Reinforcement learning

Python

C++

Physics simulators

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Robotics, CS, EE

Tools

IsaacSim

MuJoCo

Drake

Job description

Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company designing AI-powered robots such as Apollo to assist in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and home environments. The Software Engineer – Dexterous Manipulation will contribute across simulation, hardware, and systems teams to enable high-DOF, multi-fingered hand manipulation on real robots.

The role emphasizes translating state-of-the-art learning-based control into production-grade software that runs in both simulation and on hardware, with