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Sorting Robotics builds and deploys robotic systems for real manufacturing floors. We are hiring the Cognizant Engineer (CogE) to own our next flagship: a VLA-powered (Vision-Language-Action) gripping and assembly system. You will lead this product from the rig on the bench to machines running in customers facilities, and own its technical success end to end. This is a hands-on technical leadership seat. You will design the end-effector and mechatronics, integrate vision and force/tactile sensing into a 6DOF arm, and operationalize learned manipulation policies (VLA models) so the system reliably grips, places, and assembles in the real world. You work directly with the founder.
Job Responsibility
Own the VLA gripping and assembly system cradle to grave: concept, design, build, bring-up, deployment, and field reliability
Perception and sensing in the manipulation loop: vision, force/torque, tactile, and the 6DOF arm
Operationalizing VLA / learned policies: demonstration data pipeline, policy inference into real-time control, grasp/assembly evaluation, sim-to-real iteration
Requirements
5+ years taking robotic systems from concept to delivery
Identify as an AI native engineer
Real gripper / end-effector / manipulation experience and 6DOF arm integration
Comfort at the hardware + ML boundary: you do not have to train VLAs from scratch, but you can integrate learned policies, run inference on a robot, curate demo data, and debug why a grasp fails (ROS/ROS 2, OpenVLA / pi-0 style policies, imitation learning, sim-to-real a strong plus)
Strong Python and physical prototyping tools (CAD, 3D printing, CNC, PCB)