Robotics Researcher — Manipulation (Omakase Zen)

Location: United States (SF Bay Area preferred)

Employment: Full-time

Aiming to be the world’s leading humanoid company, — humanoids that work reliably in the real world every day, built with mass-production discipline rather than demo discipline.

You will train the models that make our robots' hands work.

Today that means post-training VLA policies (π0.5-class, ACT) on our own teleoperation data and deploying them onto real robots doing real jobs in Japan. Next it means pre-training a cross-embodiment manipulation foundation model on our proprietary dataset.

You own the loop end to end: data curation → training → evaluation → real-robot deployment → failure analysis → back to data. We do not have a separate team that "puts the model on the robot." That handoff is where robot learning usually goes to die.

What you would actually work on