# Senior Research Engineer - Manipulation at FieldAI

- Company: FieldAI
- What the company does: One Autonomy for All Robots. Field-proven embodied AI software that is finally unlocking the full potential of mobile robots in the real world. Backed by Khosla.
- Company website: https://fieldai.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Boston, MA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/field-ai/f53cce40-b227-4a0d-94c5-ef038f2c6341
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fieldai-senior-research-engineer-manipulation/

## About the role

We are seeking a Research Engineer to join our manipulation efforts. In this role, you will work at the intersection of robotics research and applied engineering, building, training, testing, and refining large-scale learned manipulation models and capabilities that accelerate autonomous control and loco-manipulation on humanoid robots.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in robotic manipulation and/or robot learning in academic or industry settings
- Strong foundation in robot kinematics, dynamics, and control, with a focus on manipulation
- Strong background in learning-based manipulation, with an emphasis on reinforcement learning and imitation learning, and experience training modern deep-learning models
- Experience using frameworks such as PyTorch and building reproducible model-training and evaluation pipelines
- Proven experience implementing and evaluating robotic systems on real hardware

Tags: Research