Robotics Engineer (Contractor)

1 hour, 54 minutes ago
Contract
Senior
IoT and Embedded Systems

Maneva

Maneva builds Video-to-Action AI for manufacturing and factory operations. Its platform analyzes video feeds to help factories improve quality assurance, reduce downtime, increase productivity efficiency, and support health and safety through real-time actions.

Automation Machinery Manufacturing
11-50
Founded 2022
$10M raised

Description

  • Integrate and tune robotics hardware SDKs such as Flexiv RDK and PIKA SDK for robot arm control and deployment.
  • Implement impedance control, safety limits, teleoperation pipelines, and coordinate frame calibration.
  • Perform camera calibration and multi-camera synchronization across wrist cameras and external RealSense units.
  • Diagnose timing drift, sync issues, and frame alignment problems in perception systems.
  • Build and maintain robotics data collection pipelines for recording, storage, dataset formatting, and versioning.
  • Run ACT and Diffusion Policy training and evaluation jobs, and support reliable policy evaluation and deployment.
  • Deploy learned policies on robots, optimize latency, and debug gaps between simulation or replay and real-world behavior.
  • Write ROS2 nodes when beneficial to support a lean robotics stack.
  • Collaborate closely with a deployment engineer and other technical teammates on system integration and deployment.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in engineering, robotics, computer science, or a related field.
  • 4+ years of experience building and deploying real robot systems on physical robotic arms.
  • Experience integrating and tuning robotics hardware SDKs for robot arms such as Flexiv RDK or PIKA SDK.
  • Proven ability to debug robot perception and calibration issues, including camera calibration, multi-camera synchronization, timing drift, and frame alignment.
  • Experience deploying learned policies on-robot and optimizing latency, including debugging sim/replay versus real-world performance gaps.
  • Experience building and maintaining robotics data collection pipelines, including recording, storage, dataset formatting, and versioning.
  • Strong proficiency in Python for robotics development and working proficiency in C++ sufficient to use and modify robotics SDK examples.
  • Hands-on experience with ROS2, and ML training using PyTorch and Weights & Biases.
  • Business-fluent English communication skills.
  • Authorization to work in Canada.
  • Availability to work during Eastern Time business hours.
  • Experience with LeRobot or Isaac Lab preferred.
  • Exposure to bimanual robot setups preferred.
  • Background in imitation learning preferred.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge Vision AI and IoT solutions for autonomous manufacturing, robotics, and industrial automation.
  • Chance to lead and make direct impact at a fast-growing AI company driving industrial AI adoption.
  • Travel opportunities to industrial sites, tech conferences, and research labs.
  • Collaborative environment with world-class engineers and AI experts.
  • Fast-paced, innovation-driven work setting.

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