2 days ago
Base Salary
$184k - $249k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop controllers using reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and other AI techniques for natural, robust, and adaptive robotic motor behaviors.
- Integrate motor-control systems with robotic hardware while addressing actuator dynamics, energy efficiency, and other real-world constraints.
- Use simulation and real-world testing to refine and validate control algorithms.
- Apply advances in robotics, AI, and control systems to robotic motion challenges.
- Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment.
- Mentor junior scientists and engineers.
- Bridge research initiatives with practical engineering implementation.
Requirements
- PhD, or a Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- 3+ years of industry or academic research experience.
- Experience with Java, C++, Python, or a related programming language.
- Experience leading technical initiatives and key deliverables.
- Experience mentoring, leading, or managing more junior engineers.
- Strong publication record at major Robotics, ML, or AI conferences such as RSS, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR.
- Experience with robot-learning simulation environments such as Isaac Gym/Lab, MuJoCo, or similar.
- Experience with sim-to-real transfer for robotic systems.
- Strong understanding of kinematics and motion planning for robotic systems.
- Experience applying reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or other AI techniques to robotic motor control.
- Preferred: experience with PyTorch or JAX, or programming experience in at least one software language.
- Preferred: impactful first-author publications at major conferences.
- Preferred: large-scale distributed training for reinforcement learning.
- Preferred: technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration experience.
- Preferred: experience bridging academic research with production robotics and practical engineering implementation.
- Preferred: experience integrating perception systems such as vision and touch sensors into motor-control pipelines.
- Preferred: familiarity with robot hardware constraints and actuator dynamics.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $183,800.00-$248,700.00 USD annually.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
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