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Research Scientist

Job in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listing for: Deft Robotics
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-16
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Robotics, AI Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120000 - 250000 USD Yearly USD 120000.00 250000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Our mission is to build the world’s first labor agency that deploys dexterous robots as its primary workforce.

Overview
  • We start by deploying wheeled humanoid robots in industrial manufacturing and assembly lines.
  • You’ll be joining a team of extremely hardcore and self-motivated engineers, scientists, and operators who focus on winning 24/7.
  • You will develop and own entire systems from design to deployment, playing a foundational role in deploying 5000+ robots by 2031.
What you ll do
  • 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
Required Qualifications
  • 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
Preferred Qualifications
  • Authored or co-authored peer-reviewed publications in robotics or related fields
  • Hands-on experience designing and implementing bimanual manipulation tech stacks with imitation learning or RL-based methods
  • Background in real-time ML inference systems, simulation-to-reality transfer, or advanced reinforcement learning implementations
  • 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.
  • Daily meals stipend
Expected Compensation
  • $120,000 - $250,000 annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits
Hiring Process
  • Phone screen + 3 virtual technical interviews + onsite
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