Senior Machine Learning Engineer, RL / Locomotion

Anduril Industries
Costa Mesa, United States of America
16 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 336K

Job location

Costa Mesa, United States of America

Tech stack

Python
Machine Learning
Robotic Automation Software
Reinforcement Learning
PyTorch
Mobile Robots

Job description

  • Design, train, and deploy reinforcement learning policies for legged robot locomotion using GPU-parallelized simulation (Isaac Gym / Isaac Lab)
  • Develop terrain curriculum and domain randomization strategies that produce policies robust to real-world conditions
  • Own the sim-to-real transfer pipeline, identifying and closing reality gaps
  • Train policies for stair climbing, rough terrain traversal, payload carry, push recovery, and fall recovery
  • Define and evaluate performance metrics for locomotion robustness
  • Collaborate with manipulation and perception engineers to integrate locomotion into a full autonomy stack, To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:
  • No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.

Requirements

  • 3 - 8+ years of experience with reinforcement learning for legged or mobile robots
  • Strong background in dynamics, control, and robot locomotion
  • Experience with RL algorithms (PPO, SAC) and training frameworks (rsl_rl, Stable Baselines, rl_games)
  • Hands-on experience with physics simulation (Isaac Gym, MuJoCo, PyBullet)
  • Demonstrated sim-to-real transfer on physical robotic systems
  • Proficiency in Python and PyTorch
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance, * Experience with bipedal or multi-limbed robotic platforms
  • Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Lab or Omniverse
  • Publications in top robotics venues (RSS, CoRL, ICRA, IROS)
  • Prior work in defense technology or startups

Benefits & conditions

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including, At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits .

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

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