Applied Researcher, Dexterous Manipulation

Sanctuary AI

vancouver, metro vancouver regional district, Canada
Full-time
Posted May 28, 2026

Job Description

Sanctuary AI–a multi award-winning LinkedIn Top Startup company–is seeking an exceptional Applied Researcher, Dexterous Manipulation to join our team in engineering and innovating unique robotic manipulation tasks.

As an Applied Researcher, you'll be responsible for selecting the most promising state of the art (SOTA) approaches, designing training and data-collection pipelines, supervising the process of testing these algorithms in simulation, and deploying them to our robots in real-world settings. With access to in-house robots with dexterous hands, you'll also have a unique opportunity for impactful work with new haptic and proprioceptive sensing modalities.

Success Criteria

  • Design, implement, and improve state of the art Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Imitation Learning (IL) algorithms and test them in real-world settings
  • Keep up to date with SOTA RL/IL methodologies and robotics
  • Identify, communicate, and drive promising research...