Humanoid Robotics Engineer: RL & Loco-Manipulation Expert

General Robotics; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

General Robotics, based in Redmond, WA, seeks researchers with strong robotics and ML backgrounds to train and deploy RL/IL policies for loco-manipulation on humanoid robots. You will design high‑fidelity simulators to improve sim-to-real transfer, define practical research goals, and contribute to publications while collaborating with the deployment team to ship policies to customer sites.

The role emphasizes hands-on research and real-world deployment, with opportunities to influence

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Research experience in machine learning, robotics, and computer vision.
• Experience with developing robotics algorithms or machine learning models at scale.
• Programming experience in Python/C++. Good understanding of deep learning frameworks like PyTorch or Jax.
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Responsibilities

• Train and deploy RL/IL policies for loco-manipulation tasks that perform reliably in the real world, measured by field task success rate.
• Design high fidelity simulation environments that advance sim-to-real transfer and reduce the gap between simulation training performance and real-world deployment, enabling faster iteration cycles.
• Define research goals informed by practical engineering concerns.
• Contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running model evaluations, and organizing results.
• Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts.
• Partner with the robot deployment team to ship RL trained policies to production customer sites, owning the entire pipeline from research to deployment

Skills

Python

C++

Machine Learning

Reinforcement Learning

Robotics

Vision

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent

Master's/PhD in Robotics/CS/CE

Tools

Isaac Lab

Mjlab

ManiSkill

MolmoSpaces

Job description

General Robotics, based in Redmond, WA, seeks researchers with strong robotics and ML backgrounds to train and deploy RL/IL policies for loco-manipulation on humanoid robots. You will design high‑fidelity simulators to improve sim-to-real transfer, define practical research goals, and contribute to publications while collaborating with the deployment team to ship policies to customer sites.

The role emphasizes hands-on research and real-world deployment, with opportunities to influence