Deep Learning, Robot Manipulation Engineer

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nd integration with control systems and sensors.

• Collaboratively develop and optimize the manipulation ML pipeline.
• Keep up to date with the state of the art in research and development.
• Develop and execute evaluation pipelines to rigorously test learned manipulation models, including real-world trials and simulation, measuring performance, robustness, and generalization across tasks and environments.
• Collaborate in attracting, nurturing and growing the machine learning and autonomy teams.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Courage and grit to tackle some of the hardest problems in robot manipulation.
• Enthusiasm for working collaboratively in fast paced ambiguous environments.
• Masters or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in applying deep learning to robotic manipulation.
• Strong understanding and proficiency with state of the art algorithms and best-practices in behavior cloning, vision-language-action models, diffusion policies, foundation models, etc.
• Experience with cloud computing and large-scale datasets.
• Understanding of the challenges of deploying neural network models in the real world.
• Capable of writing high quality software.
• Strong first principles thinker.

BONUS SKILLS

• Experience with other aspects of ML applied to robotics, including computer vision algorithms, sensors, point clouds, segmentation and object detection.
• Published papers at top ML/Robotics conferences (ICML, ICRA, CoRL, RSS, NeurIPS).
• Have deployed robots, collected large amounts of data, and trained large neural networks that work in production environments.

Persona AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.