Applied Researcher

Job summary

Responsibilities

The Deployments team is responsible for solving real world problems with our models and robots. We tackle the full problem space: integrating with customer workflows, training models to solve their dexterous tasks, and ensuring the on-site reliability of the system.

• Deploy and debug learned policies on physical robots, diagnosing failures across the full stack (perception, policy, control, hardware).
• Train and tune policies, curate data, and iterate to improve real-world performance.
• Write production-quality code that interfaces with Pi’s infrastructure.
• Work with operators to set up tests, evals, and data collection pipelines.
• Engage with partners to understand use cases and observe robots in deployment contexts.

What they're looking for

• Hands-on experience deploying robots or autonomous systems in real-world environments
• Strong engineering skills: clean Python, ability to interface with infrastructure, debugging instincts
• Ability to debug the full stack from perception to control
• Practical mindset: motivated by making things work, not by open-ended research
• Clear communication with researchers, operators, and occasionally partners

Tech stack

• Python