Researcher, Manipulation
About Menlo
Menlo Research is an Applied R&D lab building Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot platform, and the full software stack that powers it. Our mission is to make humanoid labor economically viable, turning software into physical labor at scale. We build across the full stack: hardware architecture, locomotion, autonomy, simulation, and infrastructure. We move fast, ship to real robots, and open-source everything we can. If you want your work to matter beyond a paper or a demo, this is the place.
The Role
We are looking for a Researcher, Manipulation to give Asimov hands that can do real work. We recently ported our RL stack from locomotion to manipulation, taking Asimov from walking to flipping, and you will drive what comes next: grasping, dexterous and contact-rich tasks, and the kind of whole-body coordination where an arm, a torso, and two legs have to solve one problem together. You will get skills onto real hardware and keep pushing until they hold up outside a controlled setup.
What You'll Do
Design, train, and ship reinforcement learning policies for manipulation, grasping, and dexterous, contact-rich tasks on Asimov
