Robotics Research Engineer

The role

You will design, implement, and deploy intelligent robotic systems for manufacturing. This involves working on ROS2-based architecture, manipulation, navigation, perception, and VLA-based control.

What you will do

• Design and implement distributed robotic systems in ROS2
• Build modular autonomy stacks for manipulation and mobile platforms
• Own system-level performance, latency, and reliability
• Develop and integrate Vision–Language–Action models for robotic control
• Design data collection pipelines and fine-tune foundation models for assembly tasks
• Benchmark and evaluate real-world performance
• Fuse traditional control with learned policies
• Implement hybrid perception–planning–control architectures
• Improve robustness, repeatability, and safety in physical systems
• Develop algorithms for dexterous manipulation and industrial navigation

Required qualifications

• Experience shipping systems into real environments
• Comfort debugging hardware–software integration issues
• Ability to own systems end-to-end

Nice to have

• PhD in Robotics or related field
• Experience working on dual-use or DoD-related systems
• Ability to obtain a government security clearance
• Experience with safety-critical robotic systems

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
• Generous PTO
• Equity

About the company

Foundry Robotics is reimagining manufacturing through advanced robotics. The company aims to rebuild the American manufacturing industry as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use contract manufacturer.