16h ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, RL / Locomotion
Costa Mesa, California
$220k-$336k / year
full-timesenior
๐ Tech Stack
๐ผ 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.
๐ฏ 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
๐ Requirements
- 3โ8+ 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
โจ 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)
๐ Benefits & Perks
- ๐๏ธ Unlimited PTO
- ๐ฐ Highly competitive equity grants
- ๐ฅ Comprehensive health coverage
- ๐ Learning and development opportunities
๐จ Hiring Process
Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate
- 1Recruiter Screenยท 30 min
- 2Technical Interviewยท 60 min
- 3Onsite Interviewยท 4 hours
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