Senra Systems
Senior Robotics Engineer, Robot Learning
$200K–$260K
Cypress, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- No number of years stated; requires hands-on and track-record experience, including work led.
- Education
- Master's or PhD in robotics, computer science, or mechanical, electrical, or computer engineering, or equivalent research or industry experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
About the job
Own the development and deployment of robot-learning capabilities for high-mix manufacturing, from data collection and model training to reliable skills running on production lines.
What you'll do
- Develop learned manipulation skills, beginning with machine tending and advancing toward dexterous wire manipulation.
- Build data, training, and evaluation pipelines; use production data and failure analysis to improve robot performance.
- Evaluate and post-train robot foundation models, plan research milestones, and help hire and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience training and deploying learning-based manipulation on real robots, not only in simulation.
- Experience with demonstrations or teleoperation, data pipelines, and hardware evaluation; track record on a robotics research or shipping team, including work led.
- Experience with contact-rich or deformable-object manipulation; strong Python and a deep learning framework such as PyTorch or JAX, plus C++ and ROS 2 or similar.
- Master's or PhD in a specified engineering, robotics, or computer science field, or equivalent research or industry experience; must meet the stated ITAR eligibility requirement.
Nice to have
- Learned skills deployed in production or commercial settings; experience with dexterous hands, tactile sensing, or force-controlled manipulation.
- Sim-to-real or simulation experience, publications or open-source work, high-mix assembly experience, or experience mentoring engineers.
Pay
$200,000-$260,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX, C++, ROS 2, MuJoCo, Isaac Sim
AI focus
Develop and deploy robot-learning systems, including learned manipulation, perception and grasping, data pipelines, post-training robot foundation models, and dexterous wire manipulation.
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