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That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND-01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.\nAbout The Role\nWe're hiring a strong Robotics Learning Engineer to join our Manipulation team based in London.\nIn this role, you will work on teaching our robots to manipulate the world around them.\nThis is a role at the intersection of applied deep learning and robotics, and to be set up for success you need both experience of working with real robot hardware (e.g. identifying issues in control or teleop), and applied deep learning (you don’t have to be an expert on cutting edge neural network techniques, but you should be perfectly capable of curating data, fine-tuning a policy on that data and hypothesising potential mitigations when something doesn’t work).\nWhat You’ll Do\nPost-train manipulation policies via behaviour cloning and RL; own the full loop from data to deployment.\n\nCome up with data preprocessing strategies to improve the quality of collected data.\n\nWork with the simulation team to set up RL training using digital twin, and then iterate on reward and simulation quality to ensure successful transfer to the real world.\n\nPartner with the data collection organization to drive data collection activities for a specific capability: specify what good data looks like, ensure diversity and coverage, and iterate on instructions.\n\nExpand observation and action spaces with new components required to support novel capabilities, and work with the Teleoperations team to expose these components to robot operators.\n\nPartner with Teleoperations and Controls teams to improve motion smoothness and teleoperation experience.\n\nInterface with hardware design team to ensure that manipulation team findings regarding the current generation of hardware are reflected in future designs.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n3+ years working on robots (industry or research) with shipped artifacts to show for it. 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