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Principal Robotics Engineer, Manipulation

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Job DescriptionJob DescriptionSalary: Base salary range $162k-200k

About the Job

Berkshire Grey is a leader in the field of AI and robotics, providing innovative solutions for e-commerce, retail replenishment, and logistics. Our technology automates complex pick, pack, and sort operations.

As part of the Research & Advanced Development group, you will develop new approaches to solving challenging manipulation problems for real-world robotics systems, allowing them to understand and interact with their environment in unprecedented ways. Your work will contribute to enhancing the capabilities of our robotic solutions and explore new solutions and approaches, unlocking new value to be delivered to our customers. This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the cutting edge of robotics applied to real-world challenges.

Responsibilities

Develop robotic learning solution prototypes to improve our robots ability to solve increasingly complex tasks at unprecedented speeds

Quickly prototype solutions, creating demos for stakeholders and visitors

Serve as subject matter for transitioning prototypes to product teams

Identify high impact areas for improvements of our robotic systems to solve real problems

Utilize and extend simulation software environments to develop and test manipulation behaviors

Stay abreast of the latest advancements in robotics and related fields, evaluating applicability to our challenges

Collaborate with external research partners to find solutions for BGs problem space

Assist with mentorship of more junior engineers or interns

Communicate technical priorities and status

Minimum Qualifications:

Masters degree in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Computer Science or a closely related field.

6+ years of experience in software development with a focus on robotics manipulation or related areas.

Strong development expertise in Python and C++

Experience with major deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch

Experience with data science tools & libraries like numpy, pandas, scipy, matplotlib, scikit-learn

Experience in working with ROS or ROS2

Demonstrated experience training and adapting of existing machine learning architectures for robot learning, to solve tasks in domains such as manipulation, locomotion, or navigation

Demonstrated ability to:

Develop on and troubleshoot real robotic systems

Determine and communicate justification of technical priorities

Rapidly prototype and iterate on solutions to challenging problems

Work independently on a variety of projects while maintaining focus

Work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities

Mentor junior engineers

Strong verbal and written communication skills, capable of explaining complex ideas clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Provide technical leadership on key projects

Qualifications:

PhD in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science or a closely related field.

Demonstrated technical proficiency in robot manipulation learning, such as reinforcement learning or imitation learning

Experience with:

Applying machine learning to hardware interacting with the real world

Real and simulated data capture

Sim-to-real for robotic manipulation

Real-time perception-based control

Incorporating tactile sensor information into manipulation behaviors

Robot simulators (e.g. Isaac Sim or MuJoCo)

Robot learning frameworks (e.g. Isaac-Gym, Orbit / Isaac Labs)

Combining model-based and data-driven approaches

Docker, cloud computing, or similar applications

Experiment tracking and dataset management (e.g. Weights & Biases)

Database systems as data source, such as MongoDB

Parallel/distributed systems and asynchronous/concurrent programming

Knowledge of LLM usage within robotics context

Possessing some of these qualifications is great to have but not required and should not discourage applicants from applying.

Why Berkshire Grey?

Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI-powered robotic solutions that are transforming the supply chain and logistics industry.

A culture of innovation and collaboration, with a commitment to professional development and growth.

Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package.

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