Remote Robotics Research Engineer - Embodied AI

Crossing Hurdles; United States; Remote; USD 500,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for Robotics & Embodied AI Research. The role is remote with a full-time commitment and a salary range of $500K-$1.5M per year.

You will lead frontier robotics research, design end-to-end experimentation, and develop high-fidelity simulations using real-world data. Responsibilities include building scalable datasets, analyzing model behavior, and driving experiments from concept to deployment.

Qualifications

• Strong background in robotics, embodied AI, robot learning, computer vision, or applied ML research.
• Hands-on experience developing, training, or evaluating robot learning models (VLA, imitation learning, or generalist policies).
• Proficiency in Python and ML/robotics frameworks (PyTorch, ROS, simulators).
• Experience designing robotics experiments with real-world data collection, simulation, and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Lead frontier robotics research across VLA models, generalist policies, world models, and embodied AI approaches.
• Design end-to-end experimentation systems spanning teleoperation, data collection, simulation, policy deployment, and real-world evaluation.
• Develop high-fidelity simulations using real-world data to test robot policies and validate performance.
• Leverage human-in-the-loop annotation to scale robotics datasets from egocentric video and multimodal sensors.
• Investigate model limitations and sim-to-real gaps to improve datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation methods.
• Identify high-impact research opportunities and lead projects from exploration to scalable implementation.

Skills

Robotics

Embodied AI

Robot learning

Computer vision

Applied ML research

Python

PyTorch

ROS

Tools

PyTorch

ROS

Simulation environments

Telemetry/data collection

Job description

Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for Robotics & Embodied AI Research. The role is remote with a full-time commitment and a salary range of $500K-$1.5M per year.

You will lead frontier robotics research, design end-to-end experimentation, and develop high-fidelity simulations using real-world data. Responsibilities include building scalable datasets, analyzing model behavior, and driving experiments from concept to deployment.