Senior Robotics Engineer: Production-Ready Robot Learning

Telemetry Today LLC; Cypress (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Gym membership reimbursement

DoorDash credit

Job summary

Senra Systems is seeking a Senior Robotics Engineer to own the technical implementation of robot learning on a real production line. You will advance learning-based manipulation, perception, and control on our wire-harness manufacturing cells, deploying on real hardware with fast iterations.

The role requires hands-on experience with learning-based policies, data pipelines, and ROS 2, in a U.S.-based environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience training and deploying learning-based manipulation on real robots.
• Experience building the data side: teleoperation or demonstration collection, data pipelines, and evaluation on hardware.
• A track record at a robotics research lab, frontier robotics company, or a team shipping learned robotic systems, including work you led.
• Experience with contact-rich or deformable-object manipulation (e.g., cables, insertion, cloth).
• A track record of moving quickly on real hardware: experiments that answer a question in days, not months.
• Strong Python and a deep learning framework such as PyTorch or JAX; comfortable in C++ and with ROS 2 or similar on real robots.
• Self-starter who takes ownership of a technical area end to end, partners well with other senior engineers, and communicates clearly with technicians, engineers, and leadership.
• Master's or PhD in robotics, computer science, or mechanical, electrical, or computer engineering, or equivalent research or industry experience.
• Must be a U.S. Person as defined under ITAR (see ITAR requirements below)

Responsibilities

• Own learned manipulation on our production line from research to a skill running on real work, starting with machine tending.
• Feeding learned skills back to production: gained skills, perception and grasping models, and failure analysis, handed to production to fold into cells on the line.
• The data pipeline for learned skills: demonstrations from teleoperation and station cameras, production data from our cells, labeling, and training and evaluation pipelines.
• Dexterous and wire-manipulation research on tasks that resisted automation: small parts, deformable wire, and contact-rich assembly.
• Model strategy: evaluating and post-training open-weight and partner robot foundation models on our data, and recommending where we build and where we buy.
• Partner pilots on robotic hands and models, run on our terms, with our data and results staying with Senra.
• A quarterly research plan, set with our Head of AI & Robotics, with clear deliverables and go or no-go criteria for each task.
• Helping hire and mentor the engineers who join as the team grows

Skills

Learning-based manipulation

Python

PyTorch/JAX

ROS 2

Real hardware deployment

Team leadership

U.S. ITAR compliance

Education

Master's or PhD in robotics, CS, or EE

Tools

ROS 2

PyTorch

Job description

Senra Systems is seeking a Senior Robotics Engineer to own the technical implementation of robot learning on a real production line. You will advance learning-based manipulation, perception, and control on our wire-harness manufacturing cells, deploying on real hardware with fast iterations.

The role requires hands-on experience with learning-based policies, data pipelines, and ROS 2, in a U.S.-based environment.