# Research Engineer at Kovari

- Company: Kovari
- What the company does: Technology for physical businesses. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures.
- Company website: https://kovari.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-27
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kovari/9fe668d5-cd97-4a63-9c46-76bcb50a4920?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/kovari-research-engineer/

## About the role

Research and develop high-reliability manipulation policies built for fast deployment and iteration Deep debug failure modes in transformer and diffusion policies deployed in the field Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Experience deploying robot policies on hardware (model-based, RL, or imitation learning)
- Sim-to-real or real robot data experience
- Experience with multimodal inputs: vision, depth, force/torque, proprioception
- Edge inference optimization with TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, or TVM
- CUDA kernel optimization
- Bonus: publications at CoRL, RSS, ICRA, NeurIPS, or similar

Tags: Software

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/kovari-research-engineer/