Automation Engineer (focused on robotics and humanoid robots )
Location: Menlo Park, CA / New York, NY
Duration: 12 months with possible extensions
Candidates who can work independently in USA without visa sponsorship are eligible
Job Description:
Owns the path from trained model to reliable on-robot execution — standing up and maintaining a humanoid platform, building the deployment pipeline from checkpoint to real-time control, and running the sim-to-real loop. Also acts as technical owner on our side of an external hardware collaboration.
Required Skills:
- Hands-on deployment of learned policies to physical humanoid/legged robots including bring-up and maintenance.
- Real-time control and low-level integration (ROS/ROS2, onboard computer, sensors/actuators).
- Sim-to-real transfer with domain randomization.
- Python/C++ with PyTorch inference on onboard hardware.
- Robot safety practices around people.
Nice-to-haves:
- Direct experience with commercial mid-size or full-size humanoids.
- Whole-body control/locomotion/manipulation stacks.
- Being technical POC in a vendor or cross-org hardware collaboration.
- Teleop and mocap rigs.
- Hardware failure diagnosis and spares logistics.
Must-Have Skills
- BS/MS in robotics, EE, ME or CS, or equivalent hands-on experience.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Robotics experience deploying things onto a robot, i.e., machine learning models onto robots.
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