Persona AI · 1 day ago
Deep Learning Robot Manipulation Engineer
Greater Houston
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expPersona AI is developing and commercializing rugged, multi-purpose humanoid robots that perform real work. They are seeking a Deep Learning Manipulation Engineer to help train these robots for real-world environments, focusing on designing advanced deep learning models and optimizing manipulation strategies.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Robotics
Responsibilities
Design and implement advanced deep learning models and training procedures to achieve dexterous manipulation for humanoid robots with high DOF and multi-fingered hands
Train models, using curriculum learning strategies, to progress from simple object interactions to precise grasping, long-horizon tasks, tool-use, and in-hand object manipulation
Incorporate tactile sensing and proprioception into end-to-end learning pipelines, enabling robust closed-loop policies
Work with the teleoperation and data team to design data collection and versioning strategies
Leverage existing state-of-the-art manipulation models and contribute to the development of new architectures for emerging complex tasks
Deploy trained manipulation models to robotic hardware, ensuring real-time performance, safety, and integration with control systems and sensors
Collaboratively develop and optimize the manipulation ML pipeline
Keep up to date with the state of the art in research and development
Develop and execute evaluation pipelines to rigorously test learned manipulation models, including real-world trials and simulation, measuring performance, robustness, and generalization across tasks and environments
Collaborate in attracting, nurturing and growing the machine learning and autonomy teams
Qualification
Required
Courage and grit to tackle some of the hardest problems in robot manipulation
Enthusiasm for working collaboratively in fast paced ambiguous environments
Masters or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field
3+ years of experience in applying deep learning to robotic manipulation
Strong understanding and proficiency with state of the art algorithms and best-practices in behavior cloning, vision-language-action models, diffusion policies, foundation models, etc
Experience with cloud computing and large-scale datasets
Understanding of the challenges of deploying neural network models in the real world
Capable of writing high quality software
Strong first principles thinker
Preferred
Experience with other aspects of ML applied to robotics, including computer vision algorithms, sensors, point clouds, segmentation and object detection
Published papers at top ML/Robotics conferences (ICML, ICRA, CoRL, RSS, NeurIPS)
Have deployed robots, collected large amounts of data, and trained large neural networks that work in production environments
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Excellent benefits
Flexible work environment
Equity opportunities
Company
Persona AI
Persona AI is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$27M2025-05-07Pre Seed· $27M
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