Software Engineer - Dexterous Manipulation
ApptronikRobotics company
Austin, United StatesSenior
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About the role
TL;DR
Develop AI-powered robots with human-like precision through dexterous manipulation.
- •Apptronik is seeking a Software Engineer specializing in Dexterous Manipulation to develop AI-powered robots.
- •You will implement and tune reinforcement learning and control algorithms for high-DOF robotic hands, translating research into production-grade software for simulation and physical hardware.
- •Key Responsibilities Implement and tune control algorithms for multi-fingered hands.
- •Develop and maintain manipulation software for real-time execution.
- •Translate state-of-the-art methods into production-grade C++/Python.
- •Build and refine sim-to-real pipelines.
- •Deploy and debug manipulation capabilities on physical robots.
- •Requirements Dexterous manipulation experience: multi-fingered grasping, in-hand manipulation, and high-DOF hand control.
- •Reinforcement learning for robotic control.
- •Strong Python and working C++ for real-time robotic software.
- •Hands-on experience training and validating policies in a physics simulator.
- •Robotics fundamentals: kinematics, dynamics, and Jacobian-based control.
Required skills
PythonC++
Nice-to-have skills
Computer Vision
Domain expertise
deeptechaerospaceautomotive
Tech stack
PythonC++GitLinux