Forward Deployed Researcher (Robot Learning)

What You Will Do

• Train neural policies for manipulation and other embodied tasks using real and simulated data.

• Build data, training, evaluation, and deployment pipelines for robotic policies.

• Run experiments in simulation and transfer successful policies onto real robots.

• Collect demonstrations and deployment data, diagnose failure modes, and improve policies iteratively.

• Evaluate models for robustness, generalisation, latency, and real-world task success.

• Work alongside deployment engineers at customer sites to adapt policies to new environments and workflows.

• Turn research ideas into systems that operate reliably outside the lab.
  

• Experience training modern neural-network-based robotic policies through a thesis, university laboratory, internship, research project, or early professional role.

• Familiarity with imitation learning, reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, or related robot-learning methods.

• Strong Python and hands-on experience with PyTorch, JAX, or an equivalent framework.

• Experience running experiments on real robots or in a robotics simulator.

• Good understanding of machine learning fundamentals and experimental design.

• Evidence of strong technical work, such as a thesis, paper, research project, open-source contribution, or working robotic system.

• Comfortable moving between research code and physical hardware.

• Willingness to travel to deployment sites.
  

Nice to Have

• Experience with manipulation, dexterous control, teleoperation, or whole-body policies.

• Familiarity with Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, ManiSkill, or similar environments.

• Experience with diffusion policies, transformers, multimodal models, or vision-language-action systems.

• Publications or workshop papers in robotics, computer vision, or machine learning.

• Experience collecting or curating robot-training data.

Pay Transparency

Compensation includes base salary and equity. The salary range for this role is shown on this posting.

What We Offer

• Agency: real ownership from day one, and decisions that actually matter.

• Freedom: to choose how you solve the problem, without layers of approval.

• A seat on a rocketship: one of Europe’s fastest-growing deep-tech companies, at the earliest stage.

• Free food and drinks in the office.