Sancho Robotics builds general-purpose mobile manipulators for advanced manufacturing. Our work was featured in the opening of the NVIDIA GTC 2026 keynote. Backed by $7 million in funding, our team has won multiple best-paper awards at top robotics conferences such as RSS and IROS and brings a decade of real-world robotics deployment experience.

As a core founding member, you'll define and build the mobile manipulation software stack, making the robot move and manipulate objects safely and robustly in dynamic, unstructured environments.

What you will do

• Develop Mobile Manipulation Policies: Design and implement policies that enable a mobile manipulator to perform generalizable skills such as grasping, insertion, and tool use.

• Develop Control & Recovery Strategies: Develop robust control, compliance, and recovery strategies for contact-rich manipulation on hardware.

• Data Collection & Policy Deployment: Train, evaluate, and deploy robot policies using teleoperation data, robot logs, and simulation.

• Task Iteration: Systematically improve task success rates and expand platform generalizability through rigorous testing and failure analysis.

What we are looking for

• Hands-on experience deploying robotic manipulation policies on real-world robot systems.

• Strong robotics fundamentals in kinematics, control, motion planning, and trajectory optimization.

• Experience in C++, ROS/ROS2, and simulators like MuJoCo or Isaac Lab.

• Sound technical judgment about when to use a math- or data-driven approach.

Bonus points

• Experience with mechanical or electronics design and fabrication.

• Experience with training and deploying imitation learning or reinforcement learning policies.