Gusto

Robot Learning Engineer - Planning & Manipulation

Gusto • $120K — $150K *
Fremont, CA 94536In-Person
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • MS/PhD in ML, robotics, or related field (or equivalent industry experience)
  • Strong applied ML fundamentals: policy learning, neural network architecture design, training infrastructure
  • Experience with robot learning for manipulation or motion
  • Proficient in Python and ML frameworks; comfortable with C++
  • Understanding of classical planning techniques
  • Demonstrated ability to transition research ideas into working systems

Responsibilities

  • Improve learned policies for robot manipulation to enhance system performance
  • Collect data from deployed robots and conduct simulations for policy training
  • Utilize multimodal data from real industrial operations
  • Collaborate with perception and controls engineers to integrate functionalities within AnywareOS
  • Deploy models to production robots across diverse industries

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • Paid sick leave
  • 401(k) plan support
  • Daily meal credit
Full Job Description
The robots run on AnywareOS, our industrial physical intelligence system. Its architecture is modular and designed to generalize across applications without reprogramming. We are looking for a Robot Learning Engineer to advance the planning and manipulation capabilities within AnywareOS.

Description

What You'll Do
  • Improve learned policies for robot manipulation that augment and extend our production system's performance envelope
  • Contribute to our manipulation capabilities: data collection from deployed robots, physics simulation environments, policy training, and deployment validation
  • Use production multimodal data - rich sensor streams from real industrial operations across logistics and manufacturing
  • Collaborate with perception and controls engineers to close the loop between scene understanding, navigation, and other capabilities inside AnywareOS
  • Ship models to production - your work will run on robots at customer sites across multiple industries, not just on a sim bench


Required Skills
  • MS/PhD in ML, robotics, or related field (or equivalent industry experience shipping learned robotic behaviors)
  • Strong applied ML fundamentals: policy learning (imitation learning, RL, or diffusion policies), neural network architecture design, training infrastructure
  • Experience with robot learning for manipulation or motion: grasp synthesis, motion generation, trajectory optimization with learned components, or sim-to-real transfer
  • Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks; comfortable with C++ for deployment-critical paths
  • Understanding of classical planning (rule-based or optimization-based planning, task-space control)
  • Demonstrated ability to go from research idea 12 working system


Nice to Have
  • Prior work on force/compliance control or contact-rich manipulation
  • Familiarity with ROS2 and real robot deployment pipelines
  • Experience with sim-to-real transfer at scale (domain randomization, system identification)
  • Background in warehouse/logistics robotics or unstructured environment manipulation
  • Publications at RSS, CoRL, ICRA, or NeurIPS robotics workshops


Benefits & Perks
  • Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • Paid sick leave
  • 401(k) plan support
  • Daily meal credit

About Gusto

Gusto is a cloud-based human resources software platform that provides payroll, benefits, and HR management services to small businesses. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Gusto's platform automates many of the administrative tasks associated with HR, such as payroll processing, tax filings, and benefits administration. The company also offers a range of HR services, including compliance support, employee onboarding, and time tracking. Gusto is committed to helping small businesses succeed by providing them with the tools and resources they need to manage their HR operations more efficiently.
Learn more about Gusto
Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Business Services
Founded
2012
* Ladders Estimates

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