Robotics AI Engineer: World Models for Humanoid Robots

Foundation Robotics Labs Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Foundation Robotics Labs Inc. is seeking engineers and scientists to build a general-purpose humanoid with strong world models and cognitive backbones.

You will contribute to the internal models, plan, predict, and adapt to diverse environments while working closely with a team pushing the boundaries of robotics intelligence. We value hands-on experience with world modeling frameworks, Python and C++ for real-time robotics, and proficiency with ROS2 and MuJoCo/Isaac Sim for sim-to-real

Qualifications

• Candidates should demonstrate hands-on experience in world modeling and model-based RL.
• Strong Python skills with production-level C++ for latency-sensitive robotics tasks are preferred.
• Experience with robotics simulators and sim-to-real transfer is essential.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement internal world models for a humanoid robot platform.
• Advance end-to-end simulation-to-real deployment with robust representations.
• Translate research into tested, integrated robotics software stacks.

Skills

World modeling

Model-based RL

Python programming

C++ robotics

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

ROS2

MuJoCo

Isaac Sim

Job description

Foundation Robotics Labs Inc. is seeking engineers and scientists to build a general-purpose humanoid with strong world models and cognitive backbones.

You will contribute to the internal models, plan, predict, and adapt to diverse environments while working closely with a team pushing the boundaries of robotics intelligence. We value hands-on experience with world modeling frameworks, Python and C++ for real-time robotics, and proficiency with ROS2 and MuJoCo/Isaac Sim for sim-to-real