{"id":630549,"url":"https://alion.io/job/embedding-vc-member-of-technical-staff-robotics-simulation","title":"Member of Technical Staff - Head of Robotics","company":{"id":6711,"name":"Embedding VC","domain":"embedding.vc","url":"https://alion.io/company/embedding-vc","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":true,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":288000,"max_usd":540000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":2716},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Digital Twin","optional":false},{"name":"Embodied AI","optional":false},{"name":"Gazebo","optional":false},{"name":"Isaac Sim","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"MuJoCo","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"Physical AI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Sim-to-Real","optional":false},{"name":"Synthetic Data","optional":false},{"name":"World Models","optional":false}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-07-27T06:46:36Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-27","last_verified_at":"2026-11-05T09:37:21Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-11-05T09:37:21Z","days_open":101,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":101},"description":"Introducing Moonlake, AI for creating world simulations.\nAbout Moonlake\nMoonlake is building the frontier of AI-powered world simulation.\nWe create systems that generate, simulate, and reason over rich 3D environments for robotics, embodied AI, and interactive applications. Our platform enables the creation of digital worlds, synthetic environments, and scalable simulation infrastructure used to train the next generation of intelligent systems.\nOur work sits at the intersection of:\nRobotics\n\nPhysical AI\n\nWorld Models\n\nSimulation Infrastructure\n\nSynthetic Data Generation\n\nEmbodied Intelligence\n\nMoonlake has raised $28M in seed funding from NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and notable angels including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Dean.\nOur mission is to build the foundational infrastructure that enables robots to learn, reason, and operate effectively in the physical world.\nThe Role\nWe are looking for a Member of Technical Staff - Robotics to help build the bridge between simulation, world models, and real-world robotic systems.\nThis role spans the full robotics stack-from evaluating foundation models and policies in simulation, to training world models, to deploying and operating physical robots. You will work closely with researchers and engineers developing next-generation simulation environments and AI systems, while ensuring those capabilities transfer successfully into real-world robotic platforms.\nThis is a highly hands-on role combining robotics engineering, machine learning, simulation, and hardware deployment.\nWhat You'll Do\nEvaluate Robot Foundation Models & Policies\nBenchmark and evaluate robot foundation models in simulated environments\n\nDesign evaluation frameworks for robotic reasoning, planning, manipulation, and navigation\n\nMeasure generalization, robustness, and task performance across diverse scenarios\n\nBuild infrastructure for large-scale simulation-based testing and validation\n\nTrain World Models for Robotics\nDevelop and train world models that enable robots to understand and predict environment dynamics\n\nBuild systems that learn from multimodal robot data including vision, depth, state, and actions\n\nImprove environment understanding, forecasting, and decision-making capabilities\n\nWork closely with simulation and AI teams to advance robotic world modeling systems\n\nBuild Real-World Robot Learning Pipelines\nCollect and curate real-world robotics datasets\n\nTrain and fine-tune models using both simulated and physical robot data\n\nImprove sim-to-real transfer for robotic policies and world models\n\nDevelop workflows connecting simulation, training infrastructure, and deployed robotic systems\n\nDeploy and Operate Physical Robots\nSet up, integrate, and maintain robotic hardware platforms\n\nBring learned policies and world models onto real robotic systems\n\nDebug hardware, software, sensing, and control issues\n\nDevelop deployment pipelines for testing, validation, and continuous improvement\n\nWork directly with robotic manipulators, mobile robots, sensors, and compute systems\n\nAreas of Focus\nRobot Foundation Models\nPolicy evaluation\n\nModel benchmarking\n\nSimulation-based testing\n\nGeneralization analysis\n\nPerformance measurement\n\nWorld Models\nEnvironment modeling\n\nPredictive systems\n\nRepresentation learning\n\nMultimodal learning\n\nModel-based reasoning\n\nSimulation\nRobotics simulators\n\nDigital twins\n\nSynthetic environments\n\nSim-to-real transfer\n\nEvaluation infrastructure\n\nRobotics Systems\nRobot setup and integration\n\nSensors and perception systems\n\nRobot control\n\nHardware debugging\n\nDeployment workflows\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nStrong background in robotics, embodied AI, machine learning, or related fields\n\nExperience working with physical robotic systems\n\nExperience with robotic simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Habitat, Gazebo, or similar\n\nFamiliarity with robot learning, foundation models, or world models\n\nStrong software engineering skills in Python and robotics tooling\n\nExperience deploying software onto real robotic hardware\n\nAbility to debug across hardware, software, and machine learning systems\n\nComfort working in a fast-moving research and engineering environment\n\nWhy This Role Matters\nMoonlake's vision extends beyond simulation. We believe the future of robotics will be powered by world models that can learn in simulation and transfer seamlessly to the physical world.\nThis role sits at the center of that mission. You will help evaluate robotic intelligence in simulation, train the models that power robotic understanding, and deploy those systems onto real robots operating in the physical world.\nYour work will directly shape how future robotic systems learn, reason, and act.\nWe are committed to being an on-site, in-person team currently based in San Francisco.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4784,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Venture Capital"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-10T19:15:14Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 1","filings_12m":1,"filings_prev_12m":0,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":167500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-29T16:27:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":null,"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/embedding-vc-member-of-technical-staff-robotics-simulation","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/embedding-vc-member-of-technical-staff-robotics-simulation.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T11:44:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":21417,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6711},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6711"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fembedding-vc-member-of-technical-staff-robotics-simulation"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fembedding-vc-member-of-technical-staff-robotics-simulation"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fembedding-vc-member-of-technical-staff-robotics-simulation"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/embedding-vc-member-of-technical-staff-robotics-simulation\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fembedding-vc-member-of-technical-staff-robotics-simulation"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":630549}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"embedding.vc","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":630549},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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