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Robotics Simulation & Control Engineer
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About the company
- Humanoid builds the world's most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots.
- HMND-01 Alpha is running in real industrial pilots.
Responsibilities
- Design and evaluate new robot platforms using physics simulation.
- Analyze robot capabilities including workspace, manipulability, dynamic balance, and torque limits.
- Use reinforcement learning to stress-test robot designs and explore capability limits.
- Own and maintain URDF models of current and future robot platforms.
- Maintain the CAD → URDF → simulation pipeline.
- Develop tools and benchmarks to evaluate locomotion, manipulation, and platform robustness.
- Provide quantitative feedback to hardware teams on actuator sizing, joint placement, mass distribution, and sensor layout.
- Collaborate with mechanical, control, and perception teams to guide platform design decisions.
Requirements
- M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Control, or a related field.
- Strong foundation in robot kinematics and dynamics.
- Experience with robot simulation environments (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Gazebo, or similar).
- Experience with reinforcement learning in robotics or physics-based simulation.
- Experience working with URDF or similar robot description formats.
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++.
Nice to have
- Experience with legged, humanoid, or wheeled robots.
- Experience training RL locomotion or manipulation policies.
- Experience with whole-body control or torque-controlled robots.
- Experience with simulation-driven hardware design.
- Experience building large-scale RL training pipelines.
Conditions
- 23 days of annual leave (accrued), 15 days of paid sick leave, and paid company holidays.
- Fully funded private healthcare for UK employees.
- Equity included.
- Pension scheme with a total 8% contribution (5% employee, 3% employer).
- Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office.
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