Research Engineer, Atlas Physics Simulation for RL

As a Research Engineer working on physics simulation on the Atlas Behavior Learning team, you will join a world-class team of engineers and scientists focused on creating groundbreaking mobile manipulation behaviors for humanoids.

Requirements

• MS with 3 years of industry experience or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field
• Detailed understanding of physics simulation including contact solvers and mesh representations
• Extensive experience with physics simulation including MuJoCo, IsaacSim and Warp
• Experience with rendering pipelines to create photorealistic synthetic images
• Strong foundation in Python, C++ and modern numerical frameworks (e.g., PyTorch and Jax)
• Experience in algorithm design, debugging, and performance optimization
• PhD or equivalent research experience in reinforcement learning or robotic manipulation
• Publications at top tier robotics venues including RSS, CoRL, Science Robotics, ICRA
• Experience training RL policies in simulation for robots or simulated characters
• Strong understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of gpu based simulators
• Understanding of GPU and CPU compute architectures
• Experience with heterogeneous compute clusters, kubernetes and docker