Valeo
Robot Application Algorithm Engineer
Reno, NV · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of experience in robot vision-guided grasping algorithms or robot application development.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or above in Robotics, Automation, Computer Science, or a related field.
About the job
Develop and deploy robot manipulation algorithms for industrial tasks such as grasping, assembly, and precision insertion, combining perception, planning, and feedback control.
What you'll do
- Build vision systems for object detection, localization, pose estimation, point-cloud processing, and grasp-pose computation; implement closed-loop robot motion workflows.
- Integrate vision, planning, and control modules using ROS/ROS2, and deploy, commission, troubleshoot, and optimize systems on production lines.
- Validate manipulation approaches involving VLA, imitation learning, and reinforcement learning; document systems and train on-site personnel.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or above in Robotics, Automation, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Familiarity with robot kinematics, coordinate transformations, trajectory planning, and basic robot-arm control.
- Hands-on familiarity with OpenCV, PCL, RGB-D cameras, and relevant perception or grasping tasks; familiarity with camera and hand-eye calibration and force/compliant control principles.
- Hands-on experience commissioning/debugging real robots and deploying industrial projects.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with VLA + RL or learning-based manipulation methods such as RECAP and RLT.
- Practical experience with impedance control, admittance control, or hybrid force/position control.
Tools
MoveIt/MoveIt2, ROS/ROS2, OpenCV, PCL, RGB-D cameras, VLA, RECAP, RLT
AI focus
Validate robot manipulation algorithms based on VLA, imitation learning, and reinforcement learning, including end-to-end visual-input-to-action policies.
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