Robotics Engineer - Manipulation focus
About this Role
We're hiring Robotics Engineers to bring state-of-the-art manipulation methods into the GRID platform. You'll 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. You'll 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.
