Robotics Engineer Manipulation focus

About this Role

Were hiring Robotics Engineers to bring state-of-the-art manipulation methods into the GRID platform. Youll work at the frontier of autonomous manipulation building production-grade policies that generalize across embodiments from fixed-base robotic arms and mobile manipulators to humanoids. This is a role for engineers who want their research to ship. Youll move between training runs simulation and real hardware in customer environments.

Responsibilities

• Design methods tools and infrastructure to push forward the state of the art in robotics and foundation models.

• Define research goals informed by practical engineering concerns.

• Train adapt and deploy manipulation foundation models vision-language-action (VLA) policies world action models (WAMs) reinforcement learning and agentic robot policies.

• Build synthetic data generation pipelines on high-fidelity simulation platforms and drive sim-to-real transfer.

• Develop data collection training and evaluation pipelines as production-quality code: extensible well-documented and usable by engineers outside your team.

• Run experiments end to end experimental design reusable implementations model evaluation and clear reporting of results.

• Contribute to publications and open-source releases.

• Partner with customers to take manipulation capabilities from prototype to deployed product.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• Research experience in machine learning robotics and computer vision.

• Experience with developing robotics algorithms or machine learning models at scale.

• Programming experience in Python/C. Good understanding of deep learning frameworks like Pytorch or Jax.

• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Desired Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Robotics Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related technical field.

• Direct research experience in robot learning computer vision or machine learning.

• First-author publications at peer-reviewed AI and robotics venues (NeurIPS ICML ICLR CVPR ICRA IROS CoRL).

• Hands-on experience with modern manipulation policies VLAs world action models reinforcement learning imitation learning diffusion or flow-matching policies or agentic robot policies.

• Experience with high-fidelity simulators such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim MuJoCo ManiSkill AirSim or CARLA including domain randomization and sim-to-real workflows.

• Familiarity with modern perception stacks and sensing modalities: RGB and RGB-D cameras LiDAR 3D representations (point clouds meshes) and segmentation detection and tracking.

• Judgment about systems constraints latency throughput compute budget memory and the ability to factor them into model and architecture choices.

About General Robotics

General Robotics is building the intelligence grid for physical AI the platform that makes any robot from robotic arms to humanoids genuinely intelligent. Headquartered in Redmond Washington were venture backed including by Accenture who invested in General Robotics in 2026 to advance Physical AI-powered robotics in manufacturing and logistics and were also part of Microsofts Startups Pegasus Program. Our teams work spans some of the most widely adopted robotics and AI research to come out of Microsoft Research Google Research and DeepMind including AirSim PACT ClimaX Tensorflow Object Detection and VideoPoet.

Work Authorization

This role is open to candidates currently based in and authorized to work in the US.

Equal Opportunity Employer
General Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the
basis of any status protected by applicable law.

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