Senior Manipulation Engineer (Imitation Learning), Discovery
About The Position
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. The Discovery team incubates and matures software-defined, AI-native offerings across various domains, including hardware, software, space, and cyber. They are seeking a Senior Manipulation Engineer to develop learned manipulation policies for robotic platforms. This role involves building skill policies for tasks such as grasping objects, operating tools, and performing assembly operations, trained from human demonstration data and deployed on real hardware. The engineer will manage the entire process from teleoperation data collection to policy training, real-world evaluation, and iteration.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience developing and deploying robot learning systems on real robots
- Strong background in robot manipulation and visuomotor control
- Experience with behavior cloning, imitation learning, or related methods
- Hands-on experience with teleoperation systems and demonstration data collection
- Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, and modern deep learning frameworks
- Experience with LeRobot, ACT, Diffusion Policy, or similar IL frameworks
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
Nice To Haves
- Experience deploying learned manipulation in production or commercial robotic systems
- Experience with dexterous hands or multi-fingered grippers
- Prior work on bimanual manipulation
- Publications in manipulation, robot learning, or embodied AI
Responsibilities
- Design, train, evaluate, and deploy visuomotor manipulation policies using behavior cloning and imitation learning (ACT, Diffusion Policy, VLA models)
- Build and maintain the teleoperation and data collection pipeline for real-robot demonstration capture
- Develop task-specific skill policies for grasping, tool use, bimanual manipulation, and assembly operations
- Own the full pipeline from data collection to model training, evaluation, and deployment on embedded compute
- Collaborate with locomotion engineers to integrate manipulation skills into a whole-body control architecture
- Work with perception engineers to design vision inputs for skill policies
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
- Highly competitive equity grants
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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