Job Description

Founding Engineer, Simulation & Robot Learning

New York City | Onsite, 5 days | $150k to $300k + equity

Early stage humanoid startup in NYC, building robots that do real manipulation work. Small founding team, serious backing, and moving fast. Not a corporate gig. 

What you’ll do

• Build the sim environments, tasks and evals the whole robot learning stack runs on
• Train manipulation policies and get them working on real hardware, not just in sim
• Own sim to real transfer end to end
• Build the tooling for data generation, training and evaluation from scratch

What we need

• Hands on robot learning or simulation experience, with learned behaviour deployed on physical robots
• Strong sim, system ID and sim to real fundamentals
• Python plus a modern ML framework (PyTorch, JAX etc.)

Nice to have

• Sim infrastructure or dev tooling
• Deformable manipulation
• Large scale training systems

Who this suits
Engineers who want to ship, not sit in meetings. Big tech or top lab background looking to go founding level and own something properly. Early career exceptional profiles considered, it’s about what you’ve built.