Senior Robotics Manipulation Engineer: AI-Driven Control

Lever, Inc.; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity opportunities

Job summary

Dexterity is seeking a Senior Robotics Manipulation Engineer to advance manipulation, control, simulation, and learning in our full‑stack robotics systems. You will bring data-driven robot controls and stay current with reinforcement learning, motion planning, and related fields to strengthen the foundation of Dexterity’s physical AI.

You will integrate multimodal sensor data and work with data, simulation, and operations teams to collect training data and improve model performance.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant Industry or Research experience.
• Strong Python programming skills.

Responsibilities

• Train models for robotic manipulation and control.
• Convert heuristics based control to learned models.
• Develop state space representations for Robotics Systems.
• Collaborate with robotics teammates to find optimal solutions.
• Implement, test, and maintain high quality software.
• Lead efforts to improve model rigor and performance.

Skills

Python

C++

Linux

Reinforcement learning

Robotics

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS or related discipline

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

CI pipelines

Job description

Dexterity is seeking a Senior Robotics Manipulation Engineer to advance manipulation, control, simulation, and learning in our full‑stack robotics systems. You will bring data-driven robot controls and stay current with reinforcement learning, motion planning, and related fields to strengthen the foundation of Dexterity’s physical AI.

You will integrate multimodal sensor data and work with data, simulation, and operations teams to collect training data and improve model performance.