Staff Robotics Engineer & Simulation Architect

moonlake; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Moonlake is seeking a Member of Technical Staff – Robotics to bridge simulation, world models, and real-world robotic systems. You will evaluate foundation models in simulation, train world models, and deploy policies to physical robots.

This hands-on role combines robotics engineering, ML, simulation, and hardware deployment, working with researchers and engineers to push the next generation of robotic platforms in a fast-moving, on-site San Francisco environment.

Qualifications

• Strong background in robotics, embodied AI, machine learning, or related fields.
• Experience working with physical robotic systems.
• Experience with robotic simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Habitat, Gazebo, or similar.
• Familiarity with robot learning, foundation models, or world models.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python and robotics tooling.
• Experience deploying software onto real robotic hardware.
• Ability to debug across hardware, software, and machine learning systems.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving research and engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Benchmark and evaluate robot foundation models in simulated environments.
• Design evaluation frameworks for robotic reasoning, planning, manipulation, and navigation.
• Measure generalization, robustness, and task performance across diverse scenarios.
• Build infrastructure for large-scale simulation-based testing and validation.
• Develop and train world models that enable robots to understand and predict environment dynamics.
• Build systems that learn from multimodal robot data including vision, depth, state, and actions.
• Improve environment understanding, forecasting, and decision-making capabilities.
• Work closely with simulation and AI teams to advance robotic world modeling systems.
• Collect and curate real-world robotics datasets.

Skills

Robotics

Embodied AI

Machine learning

Python

Robot software

Robot software deployment

Tools

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Habitat

Gazebo

Job description

Moonlake is seeking a Member of Technical Staff – Robotics to bridge simulation, world models, and real-world robotic systems. You will evaluate foundation models in simulation, train world models, and deploy policies to physical robots.

This hands-on role combines robotics engineering, ML, simulation, and hardware deployment, working with researchers and engineers to push the next generation of robotic platforms in a fast-moving, on-site San Francisco environment.