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Deep Learning Robot Manipulation Engineer

Houston, Harris County💼 Full-time🗓 2026-02-18 → 2026-08-07

Core

Designing and deploying deep learning models to enable dexterous manipulation and tool-use for humanoid robots in real-world environments.

Role type

Deep Learning Robot Manipulation Engineer

Builds

Robotic manipulation policies and control systems for humanoid robots

Domain

Robotics / Deep Learning / Autonomous Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep learning for robotic manipulation, behavior cloning, curriculum learning, tactile sensing integration, proprioception, real-time model deployment, simulation environments, evaluation pipelines

Preferred skills

Product launch experience, state-of-the-art architecture development

Technologies

Deep learning frameworks, simulation environments, robotic control systems

Responsibilities

Design and implement advanced deep learning models for dexterous manipulation; Train models using curriculum learning for grasping and tool-use; Incorporate tactile sensing and proprioception into learning pipelines; Design data collection and versioning strategies with teleoperation teams; Deploy trained models to hardware ensuring real-time performance; Develop and optimize the manipulation ML pipeline; Execute evaluation pipelines for robustness and generalization; Collaborate on growing the ML and autonomy teams

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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