Senior Robotics Dynamics & Planning Lead (Humanoid)

Holiday Robotics Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Holiday Robotics Research Inc. in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Senior Research Scientist/Engineer to lead dynamics, planning, and control for FRIDAY, the mobile humanoid robot.

You will steer real-time planning, whole-body manipulation, and integration with perception to enable safe navigation in dynamic settings. Collaboration across hardware, perception, learning, and simulation teams will help close the sim-to-real gap.

Qualifications

• Lead dynamics, planning, and control for FRIDAY, the mobile humanoid robot.
• Steer real-time planning and whole-body manipulation with perception integration.
• Collaborate across hardware, perception, learning, and simulation teams to close the sim-to-real gap.

Responsibilities

• Lead dynamics, planning, and control for FRIDAY the mobile humanoid robot.
• Steer real-time planning and whole-body manipulation, integrating perception for safe navigation.
• Design experiments to identify rigid-body and actuator dynamics and improve models; collaborate across teams to close the sim-to-real gap.

Skills

Dynamics

Planning

Control

Real-time systems

Perception

Simulation

Job description

Holiday Robotics Research Inc. is seeking a Senior Research Scientist/Engineer to lead dynamics, planning, and control for FRIDAY, the mobile humanoid robot.

You will steer real-time planning, whole-body manipulation, and integration with perception to enable safe navigation in dynamic settings. You will design experiments to identify rigid-body and actuator dynamics, iteratively improve models, and collaborate across hardware, perception, learning, and simulation teams to close the sim-to-real