Merista builds the physical AI workforce for food production. This is our founding team robotics hire, reporting to the CTO, owning the robot’s mind, and everything between intent and motion. Full-time and on-site in Barcelona.

The Challenge
Food changes shape, sticks to tools, and behaves differently as containers empty. A successful movement can still produce an incorrect portion. A policy that works in a demonstration may struggle after hours of operation.
That means the hard problems are the whole job:
How do we connect perception and manipulation when appearance alone doesn’t tell us how food will behave?
How do we control portion weight while meeting cycle-time requirements?
How do we detect a failed transfer and recover without stopping the line?
How do we collect demonstrations and production data that lead to measurable improvements?
We expect robot learning to play an important role. You’ll help determine where it earns its place, how to evaluate it, and how it should work with sensing, control, and mechanical design.

What you'd own




You’ll lead technical choices across manipulation, learning, and control, working with perception and mechatronics engineers to define the interfaces. You’ll own the path from a policy’s output to reliable motion on the robot, including real-time execution, failure detection, and recovery. Your responsibility continues into deployment, where we find out which assumptions survive.
Execution and feedback control: trajectory generation, contact-rich manipulation, force control, and portion-weight feedback. You’ll connect policy outputs to real-time control, manage inference latency and timing, and define how the robot responds when an action cannot execute as intended.
Failure detection and recovery: detecting failed transfers and interrupted actions, bringing the robot to a safe state, and resuming work reliably. You’ll build automatic recovery where practical and give a remote operator the context and control needed to interve

📌 Founding Robotics Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Merista
📍 Barcelona