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# Senior / Staff Robotics Research Scientist - Dexterous & Mobile Manipulation at Multiply Labs

- **Company:** Multiply Labs
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $160k–$210k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/multiplylabs/0aef7837-c7d7-4dad-a090-b42d54de0ec3

## Job description

Join the Future of Robotic Biomanufacturing!

Multiply Labs is a robotics company on a mission to solve a significant bottleneck in modern medicine: the manufacturing of life-saving advanced biologics, from gene and cell therapies to antibodies and more.

Today, these therapies are produced through manual, labor-intensive processes. Costs are extremely high—often $500K–$2M per patient—limiting access to only a small fraction of those who need them.

As product complexity increases and the cost of failure and scientific labor rises, the industry is shifting toward automation. Robotics and AI are making automated biologics manufacturing feasible, reliable, and economically scalable.

We believe the future of biomanufacturing is robotic—closed, automated, and scalable—ensuring critical therapeutics are accessible to every patient who needs them.

## Why This Matters

We don’t just build robots; we build the infrastructure for the next generation of biologics manufacturing. Our technology allows biopharma companies to scale production without redesigning their science, drastically lowering regulatory hurdles and bringing costs down to a level where these treatments can actually reach patients.

The Stack & The Scale

The Mission: Build the world’s best robots to make life-saving therapies accessible to all. The Technology: Advanced robotic orchestration, high-precision automation, cloud-integrated hardware-software systems, dextrous manipulation, and imitation learning. The Location: Headquartered in San Francisco, CA. The Backing: Supported by premier investors, including Casdin Capital, Lux Capital, and Y Combinator.

To learn more and to view a video of our robots in action, visit us at www.multiplylabs.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

## About the Role

At Multiply Labs, we are applying AI to solve complex manipulation challenges in robotic cell therapy manufacturing. We're looking for a Research Scientist specializing in robotic manipulation to develop the next generation of our intelligent robotic systems.

You will be responsible for developing frontier research results, developing and deploying practical systems with a core focus on dexterous & mobile manipulation.You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team and directly impacting our mission to manufacture life-saving therapies at scale.

Responsibilities include:

- Research focused on advancing robotic manipulation systems by developing exciting new ideas and providing solutions to complex problems
- Collaborate on publications to be submitted at worldwide conferences
- Working with fellow researchers and engineers to develop prototypes
- Apply yours and others’ research to real world problems

## Requirements

- MS or PhD in a robotics-relevant field
- 5+ years of experience in research and development
- A strong theoretical and practical understanding of modern approaches for robotic manipulation, which might include imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and vision-language-action (VLA) models
- High proficiency with Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch).
- Experience collaborating in large and complex code bases
- Experience with modern robotics simulation environments designed for ML (e.g., Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, PyBullet).
- A track record of deploying onto physical robot hardware, especially high-degree-of-freedom manipulators or humanoids.
- Proven track record of publications in top-tier conferences and journals in Machine Learning, Robotics, or related fields
- Robotics: ICRA, IROS, CoRL, RSS, TRO, IJRR, etc
- Computer vision: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, etc
- Machine Learning: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, etc

Nice to Haves

- The following is an example list of expertise - because robotics is such a broad umbrella, we do not expect candidates to check every item here; if you have an expertise that is not listed here, please also let us know via the cover letter.
- Experience with planning algorithms (A, RRT, PRM, etc)
- Experience with controller design (linear/nonlinear/optimal/robust/adaptive control, LQR, DDP, MPC, etc)
- Experience with optimization techniques (linear/quadratic/semidefinite/nonlinear optimization, etc)
- Experience with dynamics modeling (linear, nonlinear, Euler-Lagrange, Newton-Euler, Featherstone, etc)
- Experience with partial sensing (POMDPs, Kalman filters, particle filters, etc)
- Experience with task planning (TAMP, STRIPS, MDPs, etc)
- Experience with robotics toolkits (ROS/ROS2, OpenRAVE, MoveIt!, etc)

Total Rewards & Life at Multiply Labs

- Competitive Compensation: Salary range of $160,000 - $210,000 a year plus meaningful early-stage equity. We want our team to have a real stake in the future we’re building.
- Premium Health: Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with subsidies for child dependents.
- Wealth Building: 401(k) with a 4% company match to help you plan for the long term.
- Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit: Pay for eligible transit and parking with pre-tax dollars to save on commuting costs.
- Parental Support: Robust Paid Parental Leave to support your family’s newest additions.
- True Flexibility: We offer Flexible PTO and 12 Paid Holidays, trusting you to manage your time and recharge when you need it.
- No Set Hours: Set your own schedule in alignment with your manager and team. We hold a high bar, measuring success by impact and outcomes – not hours logged.
- Office Perks: A vibrant SF office culture featuring catered team lunches, stocked kitchen, and frequent team events.
- H-1B and Green Card sponsorship available for exceptional talent.
- Referral bonuses for helping us build a world-class team.
- Great people, meaningful work, and a team that genuinely believes in what we're building.

Come build the world’s best robots—and help make life-saving therapies accessible to all.

We take pride in cultivating an environment that fosters collaboration, open communication, and authenticity. We are an equal opportunity employer; we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are diverse in background and singular in mission.

## About Multiply Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Multiply Labs develops advanced robotic systems that manufacture next-generation cell therapies and individualized drugs at scale, providing pharma robotics as a service.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $22.8M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016 (Y Combinator Summer 2016 batch)
- **Founders**: Fred Parietti (Co-Founder & CEO) and others (no additional names publicly confirmed)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics Engineering for life sciences / pharmaceutical manufacturing
- **Target customers**: B2B; biotech and pharmaceutical companies developing cell and gene therapies (enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Building the world’s best robots to make advanced therapies accessible to all” – automation is the key to enabling life-saving therapies to reach all patients who need them

## Products & Services
- **Robotic Manufacturing Systems**: Cloud-controlled modular robotic systems that automate the production of individualized drugs and cell therapies. Compatible with market-leading GMP instruments and GxP software. Sold as “robotic production capacity” (robotics-as-a-service).
- **Digital Process Control**: Real-time monitoring and data management integrated with leading facility management software.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $3.2M (latest data); Total funding $22.8M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 
  * Lead investor in Series A: Casdin Capital ($20M, April 2021)
  * Partners: Legend Biotech, Retro Biosciences, Portal Biotechnologies, GenScript, UCSF, Stanford
- **Growth Signals**: 
  * Headcount grew 37.7% YoY to 61 employees
  * $85M partnership with Retro Biosciences (May 2024)
  * Published 74% cost reduction breakthrough for cell therapy manufacturing (August 2025)
  * Open job postings for senior robotics, VP Software Engineering, and research scientists

## Competitive Advantages
- First-mover in robotic manufacturing specifically for cell and gene therapies
- Cloud-controlled modular systems designed to be deployed inside pharma customers’ facilities
- Peer-reviewed studies with UCSF and Stanford validate performance
- Compatible with established GMP instruments, lowering adoption barriers

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling commercial deployments with top pharma partners (Legend Biotech, Retro Bio)
- Reducing cost of cell therapy manufacturing to unlock global patient access
- Expanding robotic capabilities for dexterous and mobile manipulation (reflected in recent job postings)
- Growing the engineering and research team to accelerate product development

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: A tight-knit team of roboticists, scientists, and engineers (52 people + 1 robot) united by a mission to solve a real manufacturing bottleneck. Described as “one of the hardest problems we know of.”
- **Work policy**: On-site in San Francisco (all listed roles are on-site); also an office in Milan/Pavia/Turin, Italy.
- **Employer rating**: 3.7/5 on Built In (12 reviews) – culture score 3.5, career score 3.5, compensation 3.2, work-life 2.7.
- **Notable perks**: Y Combinator alumni; exposure to cutting-edge robotics and biopharma; opportunity to work with global pharma leaders.
- **Diverse team**: Workforce spans 5 countries (US, Italy, China, Brazil, Russia) with strong technical tilt (47% technical staff).
- **Recent open roles**: VP Software Engineering, Senior/Staff Robotics Research Scientist, Robotics Software Engineer, Field Engineer, Executive Assistant to the CEO.

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/multiply-labs) – Company details, financials, workforce, news
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/multiply-labs) – Reviews, culture, office locations, open jobs
3. [multiplylabs.com/team](https://www.multiplylabs.com/team) – Team page, mission statement, culture
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/multiply-labs) – Founding info, batch, description
5. [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com) – News on partnerships and cost reduction (via search results)

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