Research Engineer: Advanced Physics Simulation for Robotics

Roboticsconnected; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EKA Robotics is expanding its R&D team in the Boston area to advance fast, general, and reliable robotics. You will extend physics engines (MuJoCo, Newton), scale GPU-based simulators for massive training workloads, and improve contact-rich manipulation environments to validate physics and visuals.

Join a team of robotics and ML pioneers building scalable simulation environments and deploying policy-trained models to real hardware.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/Robotics or a related field.
• Strong C++ and Python programming skills.
• Hands-on experience with physics engines.
• Proven ability to build and scale high-performance, physics-based simulation environments.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and extend physics engines to improve realism and efficiency.
• Scale and optimize GPU-based physics simulators for large training workloads.
• Improve the realism of contact-rich manipulation environments.
• Create tools and automated workflows to validate, tune, and optimize physical and visual assets.

Skills

C++

Python

Physics engines

GPU acceleration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Robotics

Tools

MuJoCo

Newton

URDF/SDF

Job description

EKA Robotics is expanding its R&D team in the Boston area to advance fast, general, and reliable robotics. You will extend physics engines (MuJoCo, Newton), scale GPU-based simulators for massive training workloads, and improve contact-rich manipulation environments to validate physics and visuals.

Join a team of robotics and ML pioneers building scalable simulation environments and deploying policy-trained models to real hardware.