Senior / Staff Sim-to-Real Engineer

📋 Description

• Develop and implement simple, computationally efficient, and highly accurate physical abstractions
• Design and execute empirical testing protocols to identify system parameters and prove that your
• Perform rigorous system ID and control tuning on low friction robotic actuators to ensure
• Drive the kinematic calibration, inertial parameter identification, and effort production
• Collaborate closely with the RL and Controls teams to ensure the dynamics engine and domain
• Operate autonomously to identify bottlenecks in the sim-to-real pipeline, propose solutions, and

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of industry or development experience post graduation in robotics, controls, or physical
• Proven track record of successfully transferring RL-based control policies from simulation to
• Deep, hands-on experience with control, system identification, and characterization of Quasi-Direct
• Strong foundation in rigid multi-body dynamics, kinematic calibration, and inertial identification.
• Proven experience verifying effort production, characterizing friction/backlash, and diagnosing
• Demonstrated ability to take an open-ended problem (e.g., "our policies fail when the tendon