16h ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, RL / Locomotion

Costa Mesa, California

$220k-$336k / year

full-timesenior

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll develop and deploy locomotion policies for legged robotic platforms at a defense technology company. Your work enables robust mobility across challenging terrain, directly determining operational capability.

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Do

  • Design, train, and deploy RL policies for legged robot locomotion using GPU-parallelized simulation
  • Develop terrain curriculum and domain randomization strategies for real-world robustness
  • Own the sim-to-real transfer pipeline, identifying and closing reality gaps
  • Train policies for stair climbing, rough terrain, payload carry, push recovery, and fall recovery

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • 3โ€“8+ years of reinforcement learning for legged or mobile robots
  • Strong background in dynamics, control, and robot locomotion
  • Hands-on experience with physics simulation (Isaac Gym, MuJoCo, PyBullet)
  • Proficiency in Python and PyTorch

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Experience with bipedal or multi-limbed robotic platforms
  • Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Lab or Omniverse
  • Publications in top robotics venues (RSS, CoRL, ICRA, IROS)

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Unlimited PTO
  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Highly competitive equity grants
  • ๐Ÿฅ Comprehensive health coverage
  • ๐ŸŽ“ Learning and development opportunities

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Screenยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical Interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3Onsite Interviewยท 4 hours
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