Robotics Engineer (Contractor)

Location: Toronto, Canada

Department: Engineering

Workplace: remote

Employment Type: contract

Description

Maneva is pioneering vision-to-action AI solutions for manufacturers, leveraging camera and production data to optimize factory-floor operations. As a Robotics Engineer (Contractor), you will play a critical role in integrating advanced robotics hardware and software, ensuring seamless data collection and real-world deployment of AI-driven policies. You will collaborate closely with a deployment engineer and contribute to the development and optimization of robotic systems that drive uptime, quality, safety, and throughput for industrial clients.

Key responsibilities include:

• Integrating and tuning robotics hardware SDKs (Flexiv RDK in Python/C++, PIKA SDK), including impedance control, safety limits, teleoperation pipeline setup, and coordinate frame calibration.
• Performing camera calibration and multi-camera synchronization across wrist cameras and external RealSense units, diagnosing timing/sync drift and frame alignment issues.
• Building and maintaining robust data collection pipelines for recording, storage, dataset formatting (LeRobot-compatible), and versioning to support reliable training runs.
• Running ACT and Diffusion Policy training jobs and evaluation infrastructure, ensuring reliable policy evaluation and deployment.
• Deploying learned policies on-robot, optimizing latency, and debugging sim/replay versus real-world performance gaps.
• Writing ROS2 nodes when beneficial, maintaining a lean and efficient robotics stack.

This contract position offers the opportunity to make a direct impact on Maneva's industrial AI adoption, working in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment with world-class engineers and AI experts.

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in engineering, robotics, computer science, or a related field
• 4+ years of experience building and deploying real robot systems on physical robotic arms
• Experience integrating and tuning robotics hardware SDKs for robot arms (such as Flexiv RDK or PIKA SDK)
• Proven ability to debug robot perception and calibration issues, including camera calibration, multi-camera synchronization, timing/sync drift, and frame alignment
• Experience deploying learned policies on-robot and optimizing latency, including debugging sim/replay versus real-world performance gaps
• Experience building and maintaining robotics data collection pipelines (recording, storage, dataset formatting, versioning)
• Strong proficiency in Python for robotics development and working proficiency in C++ sufficient to use and modify robotics SDK examples
• Hands-on experience with ROS2, and ML training using PyTorch and Weights & Biases
• Business-fluent English communication skills
• Authorization to work in Canada
• Availability to work during Eastern Time business hours

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with LeRobot or Isaac Lab
• Exposure to bimanual robot setups
• Background in imitation learning

Benefits

Why Join Maneva? 

• Work with cutting-edge Vision AI & IoT solutions that power autonomous manufacturing, robotics, and industrial automation​. 

• Opportunity to lead in a fast-growing AI company driving real-world impact in industrial AI adoption​. 

• Travel opportunities to industrial sites, tech conferences, and research labs. 

• Collaborate with world-class engineers & AI experts in a dynamic, innovation-driven environment. 

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