Automation Engineer - Robotics V

Job Title: Automation Engineer - Robotics V

Duration: 12 Months

Location: Onsite in New York, NY or Menlo Park CA

Job Description:

Scope:

• 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.

Onsite work with powered robotic hardware, lab and robot safety protocols, access to pre-release research artifacts.

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 compute, sensors/actuators)
• Sim-to-real transfer with domain randomization
• Python/C++ with PyTorch inference on onboard hardware
• Robot safety practices around people

Must-Have Skills:

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

Nice-to-have Skills:

• Robotics experience deploying things onto a robot i.e. machine learning models onto robots.
• 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.

Years of Experience:

• 5 years

Degrees/Certifications Required:

• Bachelor's preferred - experience is considered

How many rounds of interviews?

• 2 interviews
• One with CWAM/one with IC technical conversation no coding

Types of Interviews:

Interview Duration:

• 30 mins