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Member of Technical Staff - Robotics Manipulation

Location: San Francisco, CA
Listed: Today

About This Role

We’re looking for full-stack roboticists to own either manipulation or navigation systems end to end. These roles require strong theoretical grounding combined with real-world deployment experience. You’ll be working on robotic arms, mobile robots, and/or legged systems, helping take advanced robotics capabilities from lab-quality to production-ready.

Core Responsibilities

Design and implement robotic manipulation systems.
Deploy and operate robotic systems on real-world hardware.
Debug, iterate, and improve real-world robotic behavior in production environments.
Collaborate closely with software and infrastructure teams to deliver robust, integrated systems.

Job Requirements

3+ years in robot manipulation, with work deployed on physical arms
Strong Python; experience writing production code with tests and code review
Solid robotics math: SE(3), rigid-body transforms, Jacobians, forward/inverse kinematics
Motion planning experience (sampling-based planners, collision checking, trajectory generation)
Learning: trained ACT, Diffusion Policy, or VLAs (pi-0, OpenVLA, GR00T) with PyTorch; LeRobot or similar data pipelines
Hands-on hardware debugging: robot drivers, cameras, grippers, calibration
3D perception basics: point clouds, depth cameras, camera-robot calibration
Rigorous testing mindset: designs repeatable experiments and reports success rates
Tools: Drake, Pinocchio, MuJoCo or Isaac Sim, Meshcat

Nice to Have

Control: real-time control loops, controller arbitration, visual servoing
Open-source contributions to robotics or robot-learning projects
Proficiency in Rust, Python, C++

Additional information

At Dimensional, accessibility is a fundamental human right. By welcoming diverse perspectives, we help you build a career where you feel you belong.

About Dimensional

Dimensional is building the foundation for physical intelligence in general-purpose robotics. We develop a unified framework that enables robots to perceive, reason, learn, and act across diverse real-world environments and embodiments. Dimensional’s mission is to make physical intelligence programmable, scalable, and accessible -- accelerating the development of generalist robots that can adapt, learn, and perform reliably in the real world.

Our platform sits between robot hardware and AI models, providing a modular, composable architecture for training and deploying robotic intelligence at scale. By abstracting hardware differences and standardizing core capabilities-such as perception, spatial understanding, decision-making, and control-Dimensional allows developers and partners to build, transfer, and operate robotic skills efficiently across platforms.

Equal opportunity and legal notices

Dimensional is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion, supporting all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

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From Dimensional Fund Advisors's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 12, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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