Automation Engineer (New York)

Automation Engineer (focused on robotics and humanoid robots )

Location: Menlo Park, CA / New York, NY

Duration: 12 months with possible extensions

Candidates who can work independently in USA without visa sponsorship are eligible

Job Description:

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.

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

Nice-to-haves:

• 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.

Must-Have Skills

1. BS/MS in robotics, EE, ME or CS, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Nice-to-Have Skills

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