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Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer

AI summary of the role

Senior/Staff ML Engineer at Dexterity, a warehouse robotics company, focusing on robot task and action planning using imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and other ML techniques.

What you’ll do

  • Design and implement ML solutions across Dexterity's robotics stack, including perception, decision-making, action scoring, and predictive modeling
  • Own the full ML development cycle: data curation, labeling, training, evaluation, deployment, and iteration
  • Build performant training and inference pipelines using PyTorch, with production-readiness and scalability
  • Collaborate with robotics, data platform, and simulation teams to integrate ML into real-time, latency-sensitive robotic systems

What you’ll bring

  • Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mathematics
  • 5+ years of industry experience applying ML to real-world production systems
  • Strong Python skills and deep experience with PyTorch
  • Ability to work across ML tasks: classification, regression, ranking, segmentation, structured prediction

Technologies

PyTorch · Python · C++ · AWS · GCP · Azure · Docker · Kubernetes · Ray · NVIDIA Triton · TorchServe · Linux

About Dexterity

Builds full-stack physical AI software and industrial robots for warehouse and logistics operators, automating truck loading, packing, palletizing, and related material-handling tasks in existing facilities.

Series B

Source and classification

Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:

fastest-growing companies in robotics, backed by world-class investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Obvious Ventures. We’re a diverse and multidisciplinary team with a culture built on passion, trust, and dedication. Come join Dexterity and help make intelligent robots a reality! About the Role As a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will be working on a myriad of challenges related to robot task and action planning. You will leverage techniques from machine learning to solve hard sequential decision problems that require reasoning about the physical world and its dynamics. You will also stay abreast of the latest progress in imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and other related fields in order to further develop Dexterity’s technology foundations in Physical AI. Additionally, you will be responsible for updating and scaling our current ML
More from the job description

About Dexterity At Dexterity, we believe robots can positively transform the world. Our breakthrough technology frees people to do the creative, inspiring, problem-solving jobs that humans do best by enabling robots to handle repetitive and physically difficult work. We’re starting with warehouse automation, where the need for smarter, more resilient supply chains impacts millions of lives and businesses worldwide. Dexterity's full-stack robotics systems pick, move, pack, and collaborate with human-like skill, awareness, and learning capabilities. Our systems are software-driven and hardware-agnostic and have already picked 100+ million goods in production. And did we mention we’re customer-obsessed? Every decision, large and small, is driven by one question – how can we empower our customers with robots to do more than they thought was possible? Dexterity is one of the fastest-growing companies in robotics, backed by world-class investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Obvious Ventures. We’re a diverse and multidisciplinary team with a culture built on passion, trust, and dedication. Come join Dexterity and help make intelligent robots a reality! About the Role As a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will be working on a myriad of challenges related to robot task and action planning. You will leverage techniques from machine learning to [... source excerpt omitted ...] atest progress in imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and other related fields in order to further develop Dexterity’s technology foundations in Physical AI. Additionally, you will be responsible for updating and scaling our current ML pipelines to cover more scenarios and improve accuracy. Dexterity's robotic solutions integrate data from a multitude of sensors, including RGB cameras, depth sensors, force-torque sensors, encoders, system telemetry and human input. To better inform the planning algorithms, you may work on sensor fusion and state estimation techniques to leverage this multimodal sensory data. You will also work closely with the data platform, physics sim [... source excerpt omitted ...] - Building models that understand physics and geometry for both short- and long-horizon tasks. In addition to curating datasets and developing/improving machine learning models, you will be responsible for building data flywheels. Ideally, you will bring data-driven productization experience and help the team broadly in qualifying, deploying and updating models. Responsibilities Design and implement machine learning solutions across Dexterity’s robotics stack, including but not limited to perception, decision-making, action scoring, and predictive modeling Own the full ML development cycle for these solutions: data curation, labeling, training, evaluation, deployment, and it

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