Robotics Research Engineer: Foundation Models

general robotics corporation; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

General Robotics, based in Redmond, WA, is seeking Research Engineers to develop foundation models for GRID, spanning architecture, large-scale training, reinforcement learning, simulation and evaluation to enable robotic behaviors that generalize across tasks, environments and embodiments.

You will collaborate across model development, data collection, and deployment workflows, focusing on robust generalization, sim-to-real transfer, and scalable research practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Research or applied experience in machine learning, robotics, or computer vision.
• Strong Python programming skills and experience with PyTorch.
• Experience developing and evaluating machine-learning models or robotics algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Formulate research hypotheses and design rigorous experiments informed by deployment needs.
• Develop and scale foundation models for robotic perception and action.
• Leverage simulation and diverse datasets for pretraining, post-training, reinforcement learning, and evaluation.
• Scale existing simulation platforms for data generation and reinforcement learning across heterogeneous scenes and tasks.
• Advance generalization beyond demonstrated tasks and robust spatial understanding.
• Improve sim-to-real transfer and reliability under real-world deployment constraints.
• Develop Auto-Engineering methods for scalable and robust deployment.
• Implement, evaluate, and clearly communicate research as reusable, production-quality work.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Machine Learning

Robotics

Reinforcement Learning

Simulation

Research

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

ManiSkill

Isaac Lab

Job description

General Robotics, based in Redmond, WA, is seeking Research Engineers to develop foundation models for GRID, spanning architecture, large-scale training, reinforcement learning, simulation and evaluation to enable robotic behaviors that generalize across tasks, environments and embodiments.

You will collaborate across model development, data collection, and deployment workflows, focusing on robust generalization, sim-to-real transfer, and scalable research practices.