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(H/F) AI & Control Senior Engineer – Manipulation

Wandercraft is hiring!

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Wandercraft provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

At Wandercraft we pioneer intelligent robotics to help people do what they can’t do.

We apply the most advanced robotics and AI to expand what’s possible for humans in the fields of healthcare and now industry.

Founded in 2012, Wandercraft is globally recognized for creating the world’s first self-balancing walking exoskeleton, Atalante X, which is used in more than 100 rehabilitation centers across four continents helping individuals with disabilities re-learn how to walk, with over a million steps taken each month.

Building on over a decade of real-world experience and a proprietary neural network trained on billions of steps, we’re bringing mobility beyond clinical settings and into the home. Our personal exoskeleton, Eve, is a first-of-its-kind device designed to assist wheelchair users in standing and walking in everyday life.

Now we’re expanding our platform to support industrial and assistive tasks with the Calvin family of humanoid robots. Built in just 40 days, Calvin-40 is designed to relieve factory workers from hazardous labor.

Future versions of Calvin will assist persons with reduced autonomy in their daily activities.

Our growth into home and industrial robotics opens new horizons while reinforcing our ability to scale innovation, improve reliability, and accelerate our impact, across our entire portfolio of products and industries.

From Paris and New York, our team of over 110 engineers, clinicians, researchers, and operators is united by one mission: to design robotics that improve human life, wherever people need them most!

We’re not just hiring people: we’re building a team of pioneers, curious minds and problem solvers who want to change the world, step by step.

Join us to shape the next generation of medical and humanoid robotics powered by AI and purpose.

Job Description

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Wandercraft is strengthening its Manipulation team to tackle challenging industrial use cases with Calvin, our humanoid robot.

We are looking for a senior engineer with strong expertise in robotic manipulation to help us push the state of the art and turn advanced approaches — from model-based control to imitation learning and diffusion policies — into robust capabilities on real robots.

The role combines research, hands-on experimentation, and integration, with a strong focus on solving real-world manipulation problems.

Reporting to the Head of Manipulataion within the AI & Control department, the AI & Control Senior Engineer will be in charge of (non-exhaustive list):

  • Conducting literature reviews, particularly in robotic manipulation

  • Presenting the latest research advances and internally developed algorithms to the team

  • Developing manipulation algorithms and training policies

  • Testing algorithms on real robots and in simulation

  • Studying use-cases and proposing technical solutions

  • Improving simulator realism and comparing different simulation environments

  • Developing automated tests, improving code quality, and designing verification pipelines to prevent regressions

  • Participating to the product design by explaining hardware requirements related to manipulation (required speeds, sensing, computing, ...)

  • Demonstrating tasks and collecting demonstrations for learning experiments

  • Traveling to customer factories to validate use cases in real-world conditions and troubleshoot issues when necessary

Preferred Experience

• Diploma: Engineering degree or equivalent Master's degree required, PhD in a relevant field is very appreciated

• Required experience:

At least 5 years of experience in robotics or machine learning, including experience in robotic manipulation.

Academic or research experience is highly valued, particularly in robotics, optimal control, imitation learning, or diffusion models.

Ideally, you have experience managing datasets over time, including dataset storage, corrections, augmentation, usability, tooling, and continuous integration.

You are creative and innovative, and comfortable in developing new solutions with little existing infrastructure and rapidly building prototypes. Personal or professional robotics projects are highly valued.

You enjoy experimental work and adapting algorithms to the constraints of real-world environments and commercial products.

You have experience with collaborative software development practices, including modular design, test-driven development, and continuous integration.

You are comfortable working with linear algebra and matrix computations, kinematics, and physical modeling, including coordinate transformations and velocity computations. You also have strong software development experience in Python and C++.

You are rigorous, able to review your own work, and can clearly explain your calculations and algorithms.

You are curious and analytical, able to stay up to date with new technologies and learn effectively from scientific literature and interactions with the research community at conferences and other events.

• Required skills:

  • Python - Expert level

  • C++ - Autonomous level

  • Machine learning - Expert level

  • Imitation learning and diffusion models - Trainer level

  • Robotics and control systems - Expert level

  • Linear algebra, matrices computations, numerical optimization - Autonomous level

  • Computer vision - Autonomous level

  • Software engineering best practices, collaborative software design, continuous integration, automated testing - Autonomous level

Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Location: Paris
  • Education Level: Master's Degree
  • Experience: > 5 years
  • Occasional remote authorized
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