# Research Engineer, Human Biomechanics at Relari

- Company: Relari (YC W24)
- What the company does: Building dexterous robots that learn from human biomechanics. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.relari.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $125K to $175K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-11
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/relari/jobs/xoRkCNW-research-engineer-human-biomechanics
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/relari-research-engineer-human-biomechanics/

## About the role

You will bring a deep understanding of human movement and physical interaction into the same research loop as our robot-learning engineers. You will design experiments and computational representations spanning muscle activity, force, pressure, tactile contact, motion, and touch feedback. The goal is to determine which structure can be measured reliably and transferred across people, tasks, sensors, and robot embodiments.

## What they're looking for

- Research or engineering depth in biomechanics, neuroengineering, biomedical engineering, motor control, computational neuroscience, haptics, kinesiology, or a related field
- Hands-on experience collecting and analyzing one or more forms of biomechanical or physiological data, such as EMG, force, pressure, tactile sensing, motion capture, or wearable-sensor data
- Strong quantitative skills in signal processing, statistics, time-series modeling, sensor fusion, or machine learning
- Fluency in Python and the ability to build reliable modeling pipelines around imperfect, synchronized sensor data
- Interest in connecting human physical interaction with learned robot behavior, a PhD is welcome but not required when equivalent depth is demonstrated through other work

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