Senior Manipulation Engineer - Mobile Robotics (human)

Within the MiPA software team, you will have the opportunity to work on an ambitious mobile manipulator platform combining autonomous navigation with dual-arm manipulation, designed to assist in industrial environments, healthcare facilities and households.

Your Mission & Challenges

As a senior manipulation engineer, your mission is to give MiPA the dexterity to interact physically with its environment, grasping everyday objects, operating doors and buttons, and handling delicate items safely alongside people.

• Develop robust grasping primitives for diverse objects and tasks (bottles, bags, doors, button pressing, handovers)

• Design full-body manipulation behaviors that leverage base mobility while maintaining stability and precision during contact tasks

• Implement and tune force-torque control strategies including impedance and admittance control for compliant, safe interaction

• Design and coordinate dual-arm manipulation behaviors for complex tasks

• Build and maintain manipulation simulation environments in NVIDIA ISAAC Sim integrated with ROS2

• Collaborate in a multidisciplinary, agile team to push the boundaries of robotics

• Actively contribute to the roadmap and future of intelligent robotic systems

What we can look forward to

• University degree in Robotics, Software Engineering, Control Systems, or equivalent

• 5+ years of professional experience in robotic manipulation or motion control

• Strong proficiency in Python and C++

• Strong proficiency with ROS2 and MoveIt2

• Solid understanding of robot kinematics, dynamics, and motion planning

• Experience with force-torque control (impedance/admittance control)

• Familiarity with NVIDIA ISAAC Sim or similar robotics simulators

• Excellent communication skills in English