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The research areas include multimodal sensing, artificial intelligence, environmental perception and situational awareness, as well as real-time motion planning and decision-making, allowing humanoid robots to operate safely and efficiently in complex and dynamic environments. Through the development of advanced humanoid robotic platforms, SHARE@NTU Lab seeks to address the growing global demand for automation while cultivating the next generation of local talent in robotics, artificial intelligence, and intelligent sensing technologies.\nOur Lab aims to hire a Research Associate with strong robotics learning background to help develop and improve our visuomotor manipulation policies, with a heavy emphasis on real-robot deployment.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDesign, train, evaluate, and deploy learning-based visuomotor policies for humanoid robot manipulation\nDevelop manipulation behaviors such as grasping, pick-and-place, object reorientation, door opening, bimanual manipulation, and basic assembly\nApply and extend techniques including behavior cloning, reinforcement learning, and VLA reasoning\nTrain models that are robust to real-world challenges such as sensor noise, partial observability, contact dynamics, and environment variability\nOwn the full pipeline from data collection on real robots to model training, evaluation, and deployment\nWork closely with simulation and digital twin tooling where useful, while prioritizing real-world performance and transfer\nCollaborate with perception, controls, systems, and hardware teams to integrate policies into a full autonomy stack\nEvaluate tradeoffs between learning-based and classical approaches and make principled design decisions\nWrite high-quality, well-tested software that ships to and runs reliably on physical humanoid robots\nPartner with integration and testing teams to continuously improve robustness, performance, and deployment velocity\nJob Requirements:\nMaster in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field\nHands-on experience developing and deploying robot learning systems on real robots\nStrong background in robot manipulation and visuomotor control\nExperience with behavior cloning, reinforcement learning, or related learning-based manipulation methods\nProficiency in Python and/or C++ for robotics and ML systems\nExperience with modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch)\nAbility to design experiments, analyze failures, and iterate quickly in real-world robotic systems\nSolid understanding of the tradeoffs between classical robotics approaches and learning-based methods\nThrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where solutions require exploration and ownership\nBonus Qualifications\nExperience deploying learning-based manipulation systems in commercial or production robotic systems\nPrior work on humanoids or highly dexterous robotic platforms\nPublication record in robot learning, manipulation, or embodied AI\nExperience leading projects or mentoring other engineers\nPassion for building autonomous humanoid robots that operate in the real world\nWe regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.\nHiring Institution: NTU","description_format":"text","description_chars":3354,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Education","Hardware","Higher Education","Lasers & Photonics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T06:55:33Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":40,"reasons":["conf:21","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-25T04:10:31Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nanyang-technological-university-research-associate-robot-learning-manipulation","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nanyang-technological-university-research-associate-robot-learning-manipulation.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-25T04:10:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4526,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":474,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-26T00:00:00Z"}}}