Founding Research Engineer - Mobile Manipulation
Full-time, on-site
Who are we
Sancho Robotics builds general-purpose mobile manipulators for advanced manufacturing. Our work was featured in the opening of the NVIDIA GTC 2026 keynote. Backed by $7 million in funding, our team has won multiple best-paper awards at top robotics conferences such as RSS and IROS and brings a decade of real-world robotics deployment experience.
What you will do
Develop Mobile Manipulation Policies: Design and implement policies that enable a mobile manipulator to perform generalizable skills such as grasping, insertion, and tool use.
Develop Control & Recovery Strategies: Develop robust control, compliance, and recovery strategies for contact-rich manipulation on hardware.
Data Collection & Policy Deployment: Train, evaluate, and deploy robot policies using teleoperation data, robot logs, and simulation.
Task Iteration: Systematically improve task success rates and expand platform generalizability through rigorous testing and failure analysis.
What you will bring
- Hands‑on experience deploying robotic manipulation policies on real-world robot systems.
- Strong robotics fundamentals in kinematics, control, motion planning, and trajectory optimization.
- Experience in C++, ROS/ROS2, and simulators like MuJoCo or Isaac Lab.
- Sound technical judgment about when to use a math‑ or data‑driven approach.
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