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Our mission is to make humanoid labor economically viable, turning software into physical labor at scale. We build across the full stack: hardware architecture, locomotion, autonomy, simulation, and infrastructure. We move fast, ship to real robots, and open-source everything we can. If you want your work to matter beyond a paper or a demo, this is the place.\nThe Role\nAs a Robotics AI Engineer, you will work at the intersection of learning and hardware, training and deploying policies that run on Asimov in the real world. This is not a research role in the traditional sense. You will be expected to get results on physical robots, not just in simulation, and to iterate fast when things break. You will work closely with the hardware, firmware, and infrastructure teams to close the loop between training and deployment.\nWhat You Will Do\nDesign and train RL and imitation learning policies for locomotion, manipulation, or whole-body control\n\nRun experiments on physical hardware and close the sim-to-real gap through systematic debugging and domain adaptation\n\nBuild and maintain simulation environments and data pipelines that support fast policy iteration\n\nInstrument robot deployments and analyze failure modes to feed improvements back into training\n\nCollaborate with hardware and firmware engineers to understand physical constraints and improve policy robustness\n\nWhat We Are Looking For\nStrong foundations in reinforcement learning or imitation learning, with hands-on experience training policies that run on real systems\n\nComfort working directly with robots, not just simulators\n\nProficiency in Python and familiarity with standard RL/ML frameworks (JAX, PyTorch, IsaacGym/IsaacLab, MuJoCo, or similar)\n\nAn empirical, debugging-first mindset, you care about what actually works on hardware\n\nAbility to move fast and context-switch between research problems and engineering tasks\n\nNice to Have\nPrior work on humanoid or legged robot platforms\n\nExperience with sim-to-real transfer techniques (domain randomization, system identification, noise injection)\n\nContributions to open-source robotics projects\n\nBackground in control theory, trajectory optimization, or dynamics\n\nWhy Join Menlo\nThe policies you train do not sit in a notebook. 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