Robotics Engineer, Humanoid Locomotion & RL

general robotics corporation; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

General Robotics is seeking researchers with strong robotics and machine learning backgrounds to train and deploy RL/IL policies for loco-manipulation tasks. The role emphasizes sim-to-real transfer, high-fidelity simulation environments, and end-to-end deployment to production sites.

Candidate should have research experience in ML, robotics, and CV, with Python/C++ programming and frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX. Work authorization in the US is required for this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, 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

Robotics

Machine Learning

Reinforcement Learning

Loco-manipulation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

Python

C++

PyTorch

JAX

Isaac Lab

Mjlab

ManiSkill

MolmoSpaces

Job description

General Robotics is seeking researchers with strong robotics and machine learning backgrounds to train and deploy RL/IL policies for loco-manipulation tasks. The role emphasizes sim-to-real transfer, high-fidelity simulation environments, and end-to-end deployment to production sites.

Candidate should have research experience in ML, robotics, and CV, with Python/C++ programming and frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX. Work authorization in the US is required for this role.