Expert Scientist, Dexterous Manipulation

Sanctuary AI

Full-time Other-General
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Location
vancouver, metro vancouver regional district, Canada
Posted
June 16, 2026

Job Description

Sanctuary AIโ€“a multi award-winning LinkedIn Top Startup companyโ€“is seeking an Expert Scientist, Dexterous Manipulation to join our team in engineering and innovating unique robotic manipulation tasks.

As our Expert Scientist, your role will involve choosing the most cutting-edge methods, creating training and data collection systems, overseeing the evaluation of these algorithms in simulated environments, and implementing them on our robots in real-world situations. You will also enjoy the exclusive chance to make a meaningful impact by working with novel haptic and proprioceptive sensing techniques, thanks to our in-house robot with dexterous hands.

Success Criteria

  • Create, develop, and enhance cutting-edge Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Imitation Learning (IL) algorithms and evaluate their performance in practical applications
  • Stay current with the latest developments in RL/IL techniques and their application in robotics
  • Identify, co...