Humanoid Robotics Deployment Engineer

· Hands-on deployment of learned policies to physical humanoid or legged robots, including bring-up, calibration and ongoing maintenance

· Real-time robot control and low-level integration (ROS/ROS2, onboard compute, sensor and actuator interfaces)

· Sim-to-real transfer, including domain randomization and policy validation in simulation before hardware rollout

· Python and C++, with PyTorch for model inference on embedded or onboard hardware

· Robot safety practices for operating full-size hardware around people

Typical Day in the Role:

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Key Projects/Day-to-Day Responsibilities

· 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.

Outside of current hiring need(s), will there be additional needs for contractors in the next 12-months (forecasting)?

· 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.

Years of Experience

· 5 years

Degrees/Certifications Required

· Bachelor’s preferred - experience is considered

Qualifications:

· Compliance: onsite work with powered robotic hardware, lab and robot safety protocols, access to pre-release research artifacts.

Top 3 must-have HARD skills:

· BS/MS in robotics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science or equivalent hands-on industry experience.

Good to have skills:

· Direct experience with commercially available mid-size or full-size humanoid platforms

· Whole-body control, locomotion or manipulation stacks

· Experience as the technical point of contact in a cross-organization or vendor hardware collaboration

· Teleoperation, motion capture, or data collection rigs for robot learning

· Experience diagnosing hardware failures and managing repair/spares logistics, · Creativity, verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem solving ability.

· Team player and detail oriented.

· Ability to make sketches, engineering drawings and common computations.

· Ability to perform details calculations to compute and establish manufacturing, construction and installation standards and specifications.

· Ability to apply principles of automated theory to engineering projects.

· Previous experience with computer applications and design software related to engineering field.

Education/Experience:

· Bachelor’s degree in engineering required.

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance