Research Scientist

Deft Robotics is on a mission to build the world’s first labor agency deploying dexterous robots as its primary workforce. The Research Scientist will design and develop robot autonomy software, implement advanced learning policies, and optimize robot performance for deployment in industrial settings.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop robot autonomy software stack and algorithms to enable capabilities including grasping and more dexterous behaviors in unstructured environments
• Research and implement state-of-the-art robot learning policies, including reinforcement learning and imitation learning-based techniques
• Build reliable, high-speed robot autonomy software stack optimized for inference performance
• Design and maintain robust data collection and curation pipelines for production robot fleets
• Optimize robot policies for distributed training at scale and real-time edge deployment
• Ship production quality, safety-critical software