Research Scientist #ESF

Job Overview

Job Type: Full Time

Location: San Bruno, California

Pay: Competitive Pay & Benefits!

• Design and develop robot autonomy software stack and algorithms to enable capabilities including grasping and more dexterous behaviors in unstructured environments
• Research and implement state‑of‑the‑art robot learning policies, including reinforcement learning and imitation learning‑based techniques
• Build reliable, high‑speed robot autonomy software stack optimized for inference performance
• Design and maintain robust data collection and curation pipelines for production robot fleets
• Optimize robot policies for distributed training at scale and real‑time edge deployment
• Ship production quality, safety‑critical software

• Master's/PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or equivalent technical discipline
• Deep expertise in machine learning fundamentals, reinforcement learning, and associated frameworks (PyTorch, Tensor Flow, Ray, etc.)
• 3+ years of proven track record developing and deploying ML systems from research through production implementation
• Hands‑on experience with model lifecycle management including training, deployment, and maintenance in production settings

• We support publishing at top robotics/ML venues and presenting at conferences (travel + time fully covered)
• Advance SOTA dexterous manipulation research through novel methodologies while bridging theory & practice—real customer use‑cases with clear success criteria
• Medical, dental & vision plans
• Daily meals stipend