Staff Robotics Researcher: World Models & Simulation

Moonlake AI Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Moonlake AI Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Member of Technical Staff – Robotics to bridge simulation, world models, and real-world robotic systems.

This hands-on role spans robotics, ML, and deployment, collaborating with researchers and engineers to transfer simulation work to physical robots. You will build, test, and refine pipelines, tools, and workflows that advance robotic learning and bring policies from code to hardware.

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.
• 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.

Skills

Robotics

Embodied AI

Machine Learning

Python

ROS

Simulation

Hardware Deployment

Tools

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Habitat

Gazebo

Job description

Moonlake AI Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Member of Technical Staff – Robotics to bridge simulation, world models, and real-world robotic systems.

This hands-on role spans robotics, ML, and deployment, collaborating with researchers and engineers to transfer simulation work to physical robots. You will build, test, and refine pipelines, tools, and workflows that advance robotic learning and bring policies from code to hardware.