Automation Engineer

Location: Menlo Park, CA / New York, NY • Duration: 12 months with possible extensions • Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Deploy learned policies to physical humanoid/legged robots, including bring-up and ongoing maintenance
• Build and maintain the deployment pipeline from model checkpoint to real-time control
• Execute and iterate the sim-to-real transfer loop with domain randomization
• Integrate low-level control stacks (ROS/ROS2, onboard compute, sensors, actuators)
• Serve as technical point of contact for an external hardware collaboration
• Enforce robot safety practices around people

Requirements

• Hands-on deployment of learned policies to physical humanoid or legged robots (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
• BS/MS in robotics, EE, ME, CS, or equivalent hands-on experience

Nice-to-haves

• Direct experience with commercial mid-size or full-size humanoids
• Whole-body control, locomotion, or manipulation stacks
• Experience as technical POC in a vendor or cross-org hardware collaboration
• Teleoperation and motion-capture rigs
• Hardware failure diagnosis and spares logistics