{"id":4069761,"url":"https://alion.io/job/analog-senior-robotics-engineer-dexterous-manipulation","title":"Senior Robotics Engineer, Dexterous Manipulation","company":{"id":658,"name":"Analog","domain":"analog.io","url":"https://alion.io/company/analog","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Robotics","role_family":"Robotics","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"],"countries":["AE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Inverse Kinematics","optional":false},{"name":"Localization","optional":false},{"name":"MoveIt","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"ROS","optional":false},{"name":"Imitation Learning","optional":true},{"name":"Isaac Sim","optional":true},{"name":"MuJoCo","optional":true},{"name":"Teleoperation","optional":true},{"name":"Vision-Language-Action","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-11T12:48:56Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-11","last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T13:00:57Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Why Analog, and why now\nAnalog builds robots that work in the real world, deployed in Abu Dhabi. Our robots are already out in clinics and outdoors. They are getting good at moving through the world. The next step is getting them to do things with their hands.\nThe robot comes with dexterous, multi-finger hands already built, plus a set of cameras and touch sensors in the wrists to guide grasping. What's missing is the person who makes those hands actually useful: picking things up, handling them, and recovering when it goes wrong. If you've shipped that on real hardware, this is a rare chance to own it from day one at a 77-person company, in one city, with a team that's here because they want to be. Ana, our neural agent, is also meant to get a robotic body someday, and manipulation is a big part of how she'll get there.\nWhat we're looking for, and why\nSomeone who has taken dexterous manipulation out of simulation and onto real robots. Grasping in simulation and grasping in real life are still far apart, and the only way to close that gap is hands-on experience. You've done that on multi-finger hands.\nWe want depth in one hard problem, not a bit of everything. That's what takes us from impressive demos to capabilities that win new customers.\nWhat you'll be working on\nYou'll build the full manipulation pipeline on top of our existing dexterous hands:\nGrasp planning and selection\n\nArm and hand trajectory execution\n\nFailure detection and recovery, using force and tactile feedback\n\nYou'll connect all of it to the hand drivers and motion control stack, then get it running reliably on deployed robots, in real conditions, not just in simulation.\nWhat makes this role different\nYou're the manipulation specialist. You'll shape how we approach grasping and manipulation, and your decisions will stick.\n\nReal hardware, real conditions. You test on actual robots in the same building, then watch them go into the field.\n\nFlat structure. No layers between you and the people making decisions, so good ideas move fast.\n\nHands are given. You build the intelligence on top of existing dexterous hands instead of designing hardware from scratch.\n\nSkills we need\n5+ years in robot manipulation on real hardware, with deployment to real robots not simulation\n\nExperience building end-to-end manipulation pipelines on dexterous / multi-finger hands: perception, grasp selection, execution, failure recovery\n\n6D object pose estimation and grasp planning\n\nInverse kinematics and arm / hand trajectory planning (e.g. MoveIt 2)\n\nIntegration with hand drivers and motion control APIs, including force / tactile feedback\n\nROS 2, C++, Python\n\nNice to have\nLearning from demonstration and teleoperation data (imitation learning, VLA policies)\n\nSimulation for manipulation (Isaac Sim, MuJoCo)\n\nHumanoid or mobile manipulation experience\n\nWhat we're not looking for\nExperience that lives only in simulation or simulator training\n\nPeople who have only worked with simple grippers, not multi-finger hands\n\nPeople who want to design robotic hands from scratch\n\nPeople who want to manage rather than build\n\nPeople who want a remote or fixed-hours setup. 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