We are seeking a Manipulation Lead to define and drive Flexion's manipulation stack, with a strong focus on learning-based dexterous control for humanoid robots.

In this role, you will own the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of manipulation capabilities, from research ideas to real-time execution on physical robots.

You will work closely with the perception, controls, and infrastructure teams, and lead the engineers working on dexterous manipulation. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a purely managerial position.

Responsibilities

• Own the full manipulation stack, from problem formulation and data collection to training, deployment, and evaluation on real robots.
• Define the technical roadmap for dexterous manipulation.
• Lead the transition from research prototypes to robust, real-time controllers running on humanoid hardware.
• Design, implement, and deploy learning-based manipulation controllers (e.g. diffusion-based policies, flow matching, RL, or hybrids).
• Establish best practices for training, sim-to-real transfer, evaluation metrics, and debugging on hardware.
• Mentor and guide the engineers working on manipulation.
• Collaborate closely with perception, whole-body control, and infrastructure teams to enable closed-loop manipulation.

Requirements

Benefits

• Key technical leadership role in a young, fast-growing robotics company in Zurich.
• Direct influence on the core manipulation capabilities of next-generation humanoid robots.
• High ownership and autonomy in shaping systems and research direction.
• Competitive compensation, including base salary and additional benefits.