Robotics Software Engineer

Conduit is a company focused on revolutionizing factory automation by integrating robots, machines, and software. They are seeking an AI-Native Roboticist to develop and implement modern machine learning techniques in robotics to enhance production systems in real factory settings.

Responsibilities:

• Take production robots (Universal Robots, FANUC, KUKA, ABB, Yaskawa) and generalize them. Add coordination, perception, and policy logic so a single cell type can be deployed across many customers without three months of bespoke engineering each time
• Prototype and adapt modern ML for manipulation, inspection, machine tending, and material handling: VLA policies, diffusion policies, imitation learning, vision-language models, 3D perception, world-model-flavored video understanding
• Run the unglamorous half of the ML pipeline. Collect demonstrations on real factory hardware, label and curate data, build evaluation harnesses, ship the next checkpoint
• Use classical robotics fundamentals (calibration, frames, motion planning, force control, safety-rated cells) to make learned policies actually survive a factory floor
• Spend meaningful time onsite. Lighting, dust, occlusion, cycle time, operator workflows, and 'the customer just moved the bin three inches' are part of the job
• Turn one-off breakthroughs into reusable Conduit capabilities so the next deployment is faster than the last