Chef Robotics - San Francisco, CA
posted about 2 months ago
Chef Robotics is on a mission to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the physical world. As the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT has shown, AI has the potential to drive immense change. However, we believe AI's biggest impact will be in the physical world, given industries like manufacturing, food, and transportation represent 90% of global GDP. We're starting with food, with a goal to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen in the world. We have signed multiple multi-year contracts with various large food companies and we are growing fast. We're backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Construct, Bloomberg BETA, and Promus Ventures. We have a great team, where you will be surrounded by talented engineers and tech leaders from companies like Cruise, Zoox, Google, Verb Surgical, Tesla, Nuro, Vicarious, Amazon Robotics, Strateos, Built Robotics, Facebook, Plenty, Yelp, and Microsoft. Chef is looking for a Robotics Engineer to help us scale our fleet of robots. You will be making a large impact on a small team, developing a novel and scalable robot manipulation system that allows our robots to reliably serve millions of meals in production environments. Your role will involve developing classical or ML/RL-based motion planning and manipulation algorithms that work across thousands of different foods with varying physical properties (stickiness, density, viscosity, etc.). You will also develop novel algorithms to learn ingredient properties on-the-fly and intelligently adapt manipulation parameters. Incorporating new sensor data (e.g., force control, cameras) as needed for trajectory optimization and metrics to measure ingredient manipulation performance will be part of your responsibilities. Additionally, you will analyze manipulation performance across ingredients and optimize trajectories for throughput, contribute to overall software architecture design and standards, and champion engineering excellence by ensuring high-quality, well-structured, and well-tested code. Staying up-to-date with the latest robotics research and applying insights in a practical way to our system will be crucial to your success.