Careers
We are hiring across research, engineering, and operations. Location: Hangzhou. Send your resume and links (GitHub/Google Scholar/Portfolio) to recruit@rightly.ai.
Large Language Model Engineer
Full-time • Hangzhou
Responsibilities
- Design planning and tool-use agents for long-horizon robotics tasks
- Train/finetune LLM/VLM models (supervised, LoRA/PEFT, RLHF/DPO)
- Build evaluation suites and datasets for embodied reasoning
- Productionize inference pipelines with reliability and observability
- Collaborate with controls/perception to ship on-robot features
Minimum qualifications
- MS/PhD in CS/EE/Robotics or equivalent experience
- Strong Python and deep learning experience (PyTorch/JAX)
- Hands-on with LLM finetuning and prompt/tool-use design
- Solid software engineering: testing, code quality, reproducibility
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with robotics datasets and embodied evaluations
- Multimodal VLMs, retrieval/agents, memory systems
- CUDA/TensorRT acceleration, distributed training (FSDP/DeepSpeed)
- MLOps for data/versioning (Weights & Biases, MLflow, DVC)
Control Algorithms Engineer
Full-time • Hangzhou
Responsibilities
- Develop model-based and learning-based controllers (MPC/LQR/RL)
- Motion planning and trajectory optimization for manipulation
- System identification, calibration, and sim-to-real transfer
- Safety engineering and monitoring for real-robot deployment
- Performance benchmarking and reliability improvements
Minimum qualifications
- MS/PhD in Robotics/Controls/ME/EE or equivalent experience
- Proficiency in C++ and Python; solid grasp of dynamics/kinematics
- Hands-on with ROS2 and common robotics middleware
- Experience implementing MPC/LQR/optimal control or RL controllers
Preferred qualifications
- Dexterous manipulation, whole-body control, impedance/admittance
- RL for control (off-policy/on-policy), reward shaping, safety RL
- Simulation tooling (MuJoCo, Isaac Gym, Gazebo, PyBullet)
- Hardware bring-up and HIL testing
Sensor Engineer (Tactile, Vision)
Full-time • Hangzhou
Responsibilities
- Integrate tactile, depth, and high-speed vision sensors
- Design calibration rigs, synchronize and timestamp multi-sensor data
- Develop sensor drivers, capture pipelines, and QA tooling
- Own reliability and throughput for long-running data collection
Minimum qualifications
- BS/MS in EE/CE/ME or equivalent
- Experience with sensor interfaces (I2C/SPI/USB/GMSL) and Linux
- Calibration and rectification; OpenCV tooling
- Solid debugging across hardware/firmware/software boundaries
Preferred qualifications
- ROS2 sensor stacks, GStreamer/V4L2 pipelines, PTP time sync
- HDR/high-speed cameras, tactile sensors (GelSight/DTact, etc.)
- Mechanical design for mounts and sensor packaging
Machine Vision Engineer
Full-time • Hangzhou
Responsibilities
- Perception for detection, tracking, segmentation, and pose
- Training pipelines, data curation, and evaluation at scale
- Deploy real-time inference on edge (ONNX/TensorRT/quantization)
- Collaborate with controls to close the loop for manipulation
Minimum qualifications
- BS/MS in CS/EE/Robotics or equivalent
- Proficiency with PyTorch and modern CV architectures
- Dataset operations, metrics (mAP, MOTA, PCK), error analysis
- Experience shipping performant inference
Preferred qualifications
- Multi-view geometry/SfM/SLAM/NeRF
- Model compression, pruning, quantization, distillation
- GPU optimization and video analytics at scale
Robotics Software Engineer
Full-time • Hangzhou
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain ROS2 stacks (nodes, lifecycles, launch, diagnostics)
- Design services/interfaces to integrate perception and control modules
- Package and deploy models/services to edge devices (Jetson/x86)
- Containerize workloads and set up CI/CD for on-robot software
- Implement observability: logging, metrics, tracing, remote debugging
Minimum qualifications
- BS/MS in CS/EE/Robotics or equivalent
- Strong C++ and Python; solid Linux and networking fundamentals
- Hands-on ROS2 (rclcpp/rclpy, colcon, QoS/RTPS) and tooling
- Git-based workflows and basic CI (build/test) automation
Preferred qualifications
- NVIDIA Jetson, CUDA/TensorRT, ONNX Runtime deployment
- gRPC/ZeroMQ/fast DDS, real-time constraints and safety
- Kubernetes/Docker Compose, OTA update systems
- Experience deploying LLM/VLM/CV models onto robots
Robotics Research Intern (LLM/Controls/Vision)
Internship • Hangzhou
Responsibilities
- Prototype algorithms and run experiments on robot platforms
- Own a scoped research problem and present results
- Publish-quality engineering: clean code, docs, and benchmarks
Minimum qualifications
- Currently pursuing BS/MS/PhD in relevant field
- Strong programming (Python/C++) and fundamentals in chosen track
- Commit to 3–6 months, 3+ days per week on site in Hangzhou
Preferred qualifications
- Prior publications, open-source contributions, or competition medals
- Experience with real robot hardware or large-scale training
Benefits and perks
- Competitive compensation with equity
- Lunch and daily snacks; modern office in Hangzhou
- Hardware budget; books and conference sponsorship
- Fast iteration culture with strong research-engineering collaboration