Robotics Research Engineer: Hardware, Simulation & Data

The Robot Age; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition in Sunnyvale is seeking a research engineer focused on robotic hardware, simulation, and data for its physical AI research group. The role supports work on autonomous driving and robotic generalists, turning experimental systems into practical development loops.

This position emphasizes a robot-facing stack where hardware behavior, simulated coverage, data quality, and evaluation align to advance real-world deployment.

Qualifications

• Research engineering experience in robotics, autonomy, machine learning, simulation, or related systems
• Ability to work across hardware-adjacent constraints, data pipelines, and model evaluation
• Strong implementation skills for experiments that need to run reliably
• Comfort collaborating with a research group in an in-office Sunnyvale environment

Responsibilities

• Build research infrastructure around robotic hardware, simulation, and data collection
• Support experiments for embodied autonomy and robotic generalist systems
• Help researchers evaluate methods on systems that reflect real deployment constraints
• Improve the loop between simulated experiments, fleet data, and robot behavior

Skills

Robotics research

Autonomy

Machine learning

Simulation

Data pipelines

Model evaluation

Hardware constraints

Job description

Applied Intuition in Sunnyvale is seeking a research engineer focused on robotic hardware, simulation, and data for its physical AI research group. The role supports work on autonomous driving and robotic generalists, turning experimental systems into practical development loops.

This position emphasizes a robot-facing stack where hardware behavior, simulated coverage, data quality, and evaluation align to advance real-world deployment.