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The ability to understand complete robotic systems, implement new research ideas, and make them work on physical robots is more important.\nYou will work across platforms including the Unitree G1 humanoid and robotic arms.\nResponsibilities\nDevelop task-planning, hierarchical-planning, and motion-planning systems for complex robotic tasks.\nIntegrate perception, planning, robot interfaces, and task execution into complete robotic systems.\nBuild simulation, testing, and evaluation environments using MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, or similar.\nTransfer systems between simulation environments and from simulation to physical robots.\nIntegrate and test software humanoid robots or robotic arms, and other physical robot platforms.\nResearch and prototype world models, robot-memory architectures,\nReproduce and evaluate promising methods from recent robotics and embodied-AI research.\nDebug issues across software, simulation, and hardware.\nBuild maintainable robotics software, internal benchmarks, and automated experiment infrastructure.\nUse AI coding agents and agentic development workflows to accelerate research and engineering.\nRequired Qualifications\nAt least three years of relevant professional / industry experience in robotics, robot learning, reinforcement learning, control, embodied AI, or autonomous systems\nPractical experience with sim-to-sim and sim-to-real transfer.\nExperience with MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, or another robotics simulator.\nExperience in robotic planning, learned dynamics, sequential decision-making. hierarchical control\nExperience with ROS 2.\n Strong Python skills and practical C++ experience.\nAbility to translate research papers and ideas into working implementations.\nStrong software engineering, experimentation, testing, and debugging skills.\nWillingness to work directly with physical robots and troubleshoot across software, simulation, and hardware.\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted coding tools and agentic development workflows.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with quadrupeds, humanoids, robotic arms, or other autonomous systems.\nExperience with world models, robot memory, predictive models, or model-based reinforcement learning.\nExperience with motion-planning or control libraries.\nEvidence of strong applied work through robot demonstrations, open-source projects, publications, patents, or deployed systems.\nAdditional useful experience includes VLA training, JEPA-style models, sensor fusion, whole-body control, dexterous manipulation, domain randomization, and large-scale training infrastructure.\nWhat We Value\nWe are looking for someone who is curious, experimental, and comfortable challenging assumptions. 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