Senior Manipulation Engineer (Imitation Learning), Discovery

15 hours, 21 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is an American defense technology firm that specializes in developing advanced autonomous systems for integrated awareness and security across land, sea, and air, utilizing its proprietary Lattice platform to enhance intelligence, su...

Aerospace & Defense
1K-5K
Founded 2017
$2200M raised

Description

  • Design, train, evaluate, and deploy visuomotor manipulation policies using behavior cloning and imitation learning methods.
  • Build and maintain the teleoperation and data collection pipeline for real-robot demonstration capture.
  • Develop task-specific skill policies for grasping, tool use, bimanual manipulation, and assembly operations.
  • Own the full pipeline from data collection to model training, evaluation, and deployment on embedded compute.
  • Collaborate with locomotion engineers to integrate manipulation skills into a whole-body control architecture.
  • Work with perception engineers to design vision inputs for skill policies.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience developing and deploying robot learning systems on real robots.
  • Strong background in robot manipulation and visuomotor control.
  • Experience with behavior cloning, imitation learning, or related methods.
  • Hands-on experience with teleoperation systems and demonstration data collection.
  • Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, and modern deep learning frameworks.
  • Experience with LeRobot, ACT, Diffusion Policy, or similar imitation learning frameworks.
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
  • Experience deploying learned manipulation in production or commercial robotic systems (preferred).
  • Experience with dexterous hands or multi-fingered grippers (preferred).
  • Prior work on bimanual manipulation (preferred).
  • Publications in manipulation, robot learning, or embodied AI (preferred).

Benefits

  • US salary range of $166,000 to $220,000.
  • Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers.
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees.
  • Comprehensive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

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