# Founding Robot Learning Engineer at Haptica Robotics

- Company: Haptica Robotics
- What the company does: Backed by Stanford.
- Company website: https://hapticarobotics.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hapticarobotics/447d522e-e1fe-4543-b5fc-a9b6299a911e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/haptica-robotics-founding-robot-learning-engineer/

## About the role

Build our data collection, training and inference pipeline on off-the-shelf hardware integrated with Haptica. Train imitation learning policies (ACT, diffusion policy) with and without our tactile data on tasks where touch matters most: shear, occluded grasps, delicate objects.

## What they're looking for

- You have a MS or PhD in robotics, CS, EE or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
- Extensive experience in production-level software and ML engineering best practices
- Experience with modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch)
- You're an outstandingly strong written and verbal communicator skilled at simplifying complex topics to teammates, customers, investors, and friends. You make it look easy
- You know the fundamentals for running imitation learning (diffusion policy, ACT or similar) from data collection to training, deployment, and debugging
- You're comfortable with hardware. You've worked with cameras, IMUs, calibration, time synchronization across sensors. You have an intuition for hardware decisions that matter

Tags: AI/ML