Company: FisicAI

Location: Barcelona, Spain (onsite / hybrid)

Type: Full-time

Reports to: CEO

Candidates must be eligible to work in Spain (EU citizenship or a valid Spanish work permit).

About FisicAI

FisicAI is a Barcelona-based robotics and AI startup. We bring together robotics, motion control and AI to make robots more capable and useful in real-world environments, working with clients and partners across Europe and the US. We are an early-stage team, and we are now hiring our first senior engineers.

The role

You will build the perception capabilities that let our robots understand and act in the real world, combining vision and touch: detecting, segmenting, tracking and estimating the pose of objects, and sensing contact, force and slip so that they can grasp and manipulate objects reliably. You will also develop the learned visual and tactile representations and world models that let our robots anticipate how a scene will evolve, and that feed our learned policies. Working at the boundary between perception and control, you will own perception pipelines from data to deployment on real robots in our Barcelona lab.

As one of our founding engineers, you will shape our technical direction and mentor our junior engineers.

What you’ll do

· Develop vision models for manipulation from RGB-D and stereo cameras, including object detection, segmentation, tracking, 6D pose estimation and 3D scene understanding.

· Develop tactile perception from gripper-mounted tactile and force/torque sensors to estimate contact, slip, object properties and in-grasp object pose.

· Build perception for grasping and manipulation, closing the loop between perception and robot motion (e.g., grasp detection, visual servoing, tactile feedback control).

· Own the data and model lifecycle: collection, annotation, synthetic data from simulation, training, evaluation, and optimization for real-time performance on robot hardware.

· Integrate perception into our robotics software stack in C++ and Python,



working closely with our control and AI engineers.

What we’re looking for

· PhD in Computer Vision, Robotics, Machine Learning or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 6+ years.

· Strong experience developing and evaluating perception and deep learning models, especially for computer vision, in Python (PyTorch) and C++.

· Solid understanding of 3D vision and geometry: camera models, calibration, multi-view geometry and point clouds.

· A good robotics background: spatial transformations, robot kinematics and dynamics, and how perception feeds into manipulation.

· Experience applying perception (vision and/or tactile sensing) to real robotic systems, and with simulators such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo or Gazebo.

· Ability to work independently, make progress under uncertainty and adapt as priorities evolve, with genuine motivation for our mission.

· Experience mentoring junior engineers or researchers, and fluent English with clear communication.

Nice to have

· Vision foundation models, vision-language-action models or world models for robotics (e.g., self-supervised representation learning, video prediction).

· Real-time inference and edge deployment (e.g., TensorRT, ONNX).

· Tactile sensors (e.g., GelSight, DIGIT, taxel arrays) and visuo-tactile fusion.

· OpenCV, Open3D or PCL.

· Publications in computer vision, robotics, tactile sensing or ML venues, or contributions to open-source software.

What we offer

· Challenging, real-world robotics and AI problems with a small, ambitious team, and end-to-end ownership from data and models to real-robot testing.

· A founding engineer role reporting directly to the CEO, with real influence on technical direction and the opportunity to grow and lead the engineering team.

· A well-equipped lab in Barcelona (robot arms, grippers with tactile sensors, cameras, input devices).

· A competitive salary package, according to the candidate experience, plus founding-team equity.

· Adaptable working arrangements.

📌 Senior Robotics Engineer – Perception for Manipulation (Barcelona)
🏢 FisicAI
📍 Barcelona