Robotics AI Research Engineer (Humanoid RL)

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

Job summary

FieldAI is seeking a Software/Research Engineer to develop learning systems for humanoid robots and bring research advances into real-world deployment. You will work across whole-body loco-manipulation, reinforcement learning, motion retargeting, and real-world deployment to close the loop between research, simulation, and robotics.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to build scalable RL training, evaluation, and automated robot-testing infrastructure, contributing to robust,

Qualifications

• Experience with reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or other learning-based approaches for robotics.
• Strong understanding of robotics fundamentals such as kinematics, dynamics, control, and physical interaction.
• Experience developing and evaluating robotic systems in simulation and/or on physical hardware.
• Ability to move comfortably between research experimentation and production-quality engineering.

Responsibilities

• Develop and train whole-body loco-manipulation policies for humanoid robots.
• Deploy trained policies to physical humanoids and integrate them into our production software stack.
• Advance our motion retargeting pipeline, transforming human motion into robot-executable behaviors.
• Reduce the sim-to-real gap by improving simulation fidelity and closing the real-to-sim loop.
• Build automated evaluation and validation systems that accelerate moving policies from simulation to hardware.
• Improve performance and scalability of our robot-learning infrastructure for faster experimentation.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers across perception, learning, simulation, and hardware to turn ideas into deployed capabilities.

Skills

Reinforcement learning

Imitation learning

Generative models

Robotics fundamentals

Production-ready engineering

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Robotics, CS, ML, Engineering

Tools

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

NVIDIA Isaac Lab

Newton

Job description

FieldAI is seeking a Software/Research Engineer to develop learning systems for humanoid robots and bring research advances into real-world deployment. You will work across whole-body loco-manipulation, reinforcement learning, motion retargeting, and real-world deployment to close the loop between research, simulation, and robotics.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to build scalable RL training, evaluation, and automated robot-testing infrastructure, contributing to robust,