Robotics Engineer (Contractor)

Maneva is pioneering vision-to-action AI solutions for manufacturers leveraging camera and production data to optimize factory-floor operations. As a Robotics Engineer (Contractor) you will play a critical role in integrating advanced robotics hardware and software ensuring seamless data collection and real-world deployment of AI-driven policies. You will collaborate closely with a deployment engineer and contribute to the development and optimization of robotic systems that drive uptime quality safety and throughput for industrial clients.

Key responsibilities include:

• Integrating and tuning robotics hardware SDKs (Flexiv RDK in Python/C PIKA SDK) including impedance control safety limits teleoperation pipeline setup and coordinate frame calibration.
• Performing camera calibration and multi-camera synchronization across wrist cameras and external RealSense units diagnosing timing/sync drift and frame alignment issues.
• Building and maintaining robust data collection pipelines for recording storage dataset formatting (LeRobot-compatible) and versioning to support reliable training runs.
• Running ACT and Diffusion Policy training jobs and evaluation infrastructure ensuring reliable policy evaluation and deployment.
• Deploying learned policies on-robot optimizing latency and debugging sim/replay versus real-world performance gaps.
• Writing ROS2 nodes when beneficial maintaining a lean and efficient robotics stack.

This contract position offers the opportunity to make a direct impact on Manevas industrial AI adoption working in a fast-paced innovation-driven environment with world-class engineers and AI experts.

Required Qualifications:

• Masters degree in engineering robotics computer science or a related field
• 4 years of experience building and deploying real robot systems on physical robotic arms
• Experience integrating and tuning robotics hardware SDKs for robot arms (such as Flexiv RDK or PIKA SDK)
• Proven ability to debug robot perception and calibration issues including camera calibration multi-camera synchronization timing/sync drift and frame alignment
• Experience deploying learned policies on-robot and optimizing latency including debugging sim/replay versus real-world performance gaps
• Experience building and maintaining robotics data collection pipelines (recording storage dataset formatting versioning)
• Strong proficiency in Python for robotics development and working proficiency in C sufficient to use and modify robotics SDK examples
• Hands-on experience with ROS2 and ML training using PyTorch and Weights & Biases
• Business-fluent English communication skills
• Authorization to work in Canada
• Availability to work during Eastern Time business hours

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with LeRobot or Isaac Lab
• Exposure to bimanual robot setups
• Background in imitation learning

Why Join Maneva

• Work with cutting-edge Vision AI & IoT solutionsthatpowerautonomous manufacturing robotics and industrial automation.

• Opportunity to leadin a fast-growing AI companydrivingreal-world impact in industrial AI adoption.

• Travel opportunitiesto industrial sites tech conferences and research labs.

• Collaborate with world-class engineers & AI expertsin a dynamic innovation-driven environment.

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