Automation Engineer

Automation Engineer (focused on robotics and humanoid robots )Location: Menlo Park, CA / New York, NY Duration: 12 months with possible extensionsCandidates who can work independently in USA without visa sponsorship are eligibleJob Description:Owns the path from trained model to reliable on-robot execution — standing up and maintaining a humanoid platform, building the deployment pipeline from checkpoint to real-time control, and running the sim-to-real loop. Also acts as technical owner on our side of an external hardware collaboration.Required Skills:Hands-on deployment of learned policies to physical humanoid/legged robots including bring-up and maintenance.Real-time control and low-level integration (ROS/ROS2, onboard computer, sensors/actuators).Sim-to-real transfer with domain randomization.Python/C++ with PyTorch inference on onboard hardware.Robot safety practices around people.Nice-to-haves:Direct experience with commercial mid-size or full-size humanoids.Whole-body control/locomotion/manipulation stacks.Being technical POC in a vendor or cross-org hardware collaboration.Teleop and mocap rigs.Hardware failure diagnosis and spares logistics.Must-Have SkillsBS/MS in robotics, EE, ME or CS, or equivalent hands-on experience.Nice-to-Have SkillsRobotics experience deploying things onto a robot, i.e., machine learning models onto robots.