Senior Robotics Engineer — Manipulation

Datamentors is a robotics start-up building an agnostic orchestration platform and a family of proprietary robots — quadruped, mobile upper-body and humanoid — assembled at our own factory in Caniçal, Madeira. We also develop custom Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that give our robots natural-language reasoning and autonomy, deployable across sectors from hospitality and healthcare to defence and logistics. With prototypes running and a clear path to 600 units per year, the engineers joining now will shape both the hardware and the intelligence behind Ardia for years to come.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Own how robots on the platform grasp, manipulate and interact with objects — from dexterous multi-finger hands to whole-arm motion — across humanoid and mobile upper-body embodiments. You develop manipulation policies, bridge them to safe on-robot execution and work with real hardware daily.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Develop manipulation policies and integrati...