Technical Associate I

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, Comp Sci & Artificial Intelligence Lab, works support an active research program at the intersection of immersive teleoperation and learned manipulation policies, with a focus on robot legibility, making learned robot behavior interpretable and predictable to the humans working alongside it. The Technical Associate will build and maintain the lab's VR-based teleoperation and data-collection infrastructure, support the collection and curation of robot demonstration datasets, and assist in training, deploying, and evaluating vision-language-action (VLA) policies on physical multi-arm and dexterous manipulation platforms. This is a hands-on research engineering role with substantial intellectual scope: the person in this position will contribute to experimental design and to publications, not only to system maintenance.The full job description is available, here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/j7o8p3ws4wqo3b2llzqed/Technical-Associate-1-sept..-2026-Bobu.docx?rlkey=mioxm2nt7qju2fh1q269qnf5t&st=j522isjy&dl=0