Job Title
Founding Robotics Engineer
Salary
Not Disclosed
Company Description
Merista is a Barcelona-based robotics startup founded by the core team behind REMY Robotics, which was acquired in 2025 after operating 10 robot-run kitchens. Merista is now deploying autonomous robots to food production lines, automating manual portioning and placement tasks with high-precision, real-time sensing and learned manipulation policies.
Job Description
As the founding robotics hire reporting to the CTO, you will own the entire technical space between intent and motion. You will design learned manipulation policies, develop real-time execution layers, and manage safety interfaces for robots processing 1,000 meals per hour. This is a critical role defining the core architecture for industrial-scale food automation.
Location
Barcelona, Spain
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a proven founding team that spent seven years scaling REMY Robotics to 15,000 operating hours across five cities prior to its successful 2025 acquisition.
- Solve complex,



contact-rich manipulation challenges involving deformable objects and dynamic conveyor tracking in a high-speed, fenceless collaborative environment.
- Enjoy high-impact ownership of the robotics stack, from imitation learning and simulation trade-offs to local GPU inference and ISO-certified safety integration.

What You Will Do
- Develop and evaluate learned manipulation policies, determining the optimal balance between imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and simulation for the fleet.
- Architect the execution layer, including trajectory generation, force-domain control, and the real-time loops required for 6-second cycle times on local GPU compute.
- Design robust multi-robot coordination systems and remote-operation recovery paths that ensure 99.9% completion rates in demanding factory environments.

The adecuado candidate
- Several years of experience in real-time robot control and manipulators, specifically with contact-rich task

📌 Founding Robotics Engineer At Merista (Cataluña)
🏢 Jack and Jill
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