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You will build, deploy, and continuously improve perception, decision-making, and learning systems that directly affect robot performance in customer warehouses.\nYou'll work across robotics, ML, and system architecture to improve:\n Pick success and reliability\n Segmentation and perception quality\n Grasp and suction selection strategies\n Placement and exception handling\n Overall system robustness in the real world\n What You'll Work On\nDepending on your strengths and interests, you will contribute across areas such as:\n Improve pick success, reliability, and throughput across production robots\n Build and deploy perception and segmentation models for warehouse environments\n Develop intelligent picking, retry, and placement strategies that reduce exceptions\n Integrate ML outputs into real-time robotic decision systems\n Work hands-on with robots, cameras, and sensor data to harden systems\n Use production data to continuously improve performance and robustness\n Collaborate closely with hardware, operations, product, and customer teams\n Who We're Looking For\nWe're looking for a senior-level engineer who is either strong across robotics and ML - or very strong in one with the ability and curiosity to grow in the other.\nRequired Experience\n 5+ years of professional experience in robotics, ML engineering, or related fields\n Strong Python experience\n Experience delivering production-level code\n Hands-on experience with real-world systems, including robotics, sensors, or deployed ML\n Strong problem-solving mindset and comfort working across system boundaries\n Preferred Qualifications\n Applied machine learning / MLOps experience (model deployment, iteration, monitoring)\n Computer vision experience (segmentation, detection, depth, perception pipelines)\n Strong kinematics background\n Experience with integrating and calibrating color and depth sensors\n Experience with manipulation, picking, grasping, or physical automation\n Familiarity with Docker, Linux, and production infrastructure\n Experience using production data to draw actionable insights\n DevOps experience\n Why Join RightHand Robotics\n Work on robots in production, not demos\n Make tangible impact in a small, senior team\n Solve challenging real-world robotics + ML problems\n High ownership, high trust engineering culture\n Flexible work environment\n About RightHand Robotics\nAt RightHand Robotics, we build intelligent robotic piece-picking systems that operate in real warehouses, at real scale, every day. 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