Staff Robotics Engineer — Simulation & World Models

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Moonlake is seeking a Mission-driven Member of Technical Staff – Robotics to bridge simulation, world models, and real-world robotic systems. This hands-on role spans robotics engineering, ML, simulation, and hardware deployment, collaborating with researchers and engineers to deploy capabilities onto physical robots.

You will evaluate foundation models in simulation, train world models, and develop pipelines that connect simulation, training, and deployment for scalable robotic systems in a

Qualifications

• Strong background in robotics, embodied AI, and machine learning.
• Experience with physical robotic systems.
• Experience with robotic simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Habitat, Gazebo.
• Familiarity with robot learning, foundation models, or world models.
• Strong Python software engineering skills and robotics tooling.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate robot foundation models and policies in simulation.
• Train world models and multimodal data pipelines.
• Build real-world robot learning pipelines using simulated and physical data.
• Develop deployment workflows and debugging across hardware and software.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers across simulation and AI teams.

Skills

Robotics

Embodied AI

Machine learning

Python

Robotic hardware deployment

Software debugging

Tools

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Habitat

Gazebo

Job description

Moonlake is seeking a Mission-driven Member of Technical Staff – Robotics to bridge simulation, world models, and real-world robotic systems. This hands-on role spans robotics engineering, ML, simulation, and hardware deployment, collaborating with researchers and engineers to deploy capabilities onto physical robots.

You will evaluate foundation models in simulation, train world models, and develop pipelines that connect simulation, training, and deployment for scalable robotic systems in a