Embedding VC
Member of Technical Staff - Head of Robotics
San Francisco Bay Area · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 27, 2026
About the job
Build and evaluate robotics AI across simulation and physical platforms, including world-model training, sim-to-real transfer, and robot deployment.
What you'll do
- Benchmark robot foundation models and policies in simulation and develop evaluation infrastructure.
- Train world models and learning pipelines using simulated and real-world robot data.
- Integrate, deploy, maintain, and debug physical robots and their software, sensors, and controls.
What they ask for
- Strong background in robotics, embodied AI, machine learning, or a related field.
- Experience with physical robotic systems and deploying software to real robotic hardware.
- Experience with robotic simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Habitat, Gazebo, or similar.
- Strong Python and robotics tooling skills; ability to debug across hardware, software, and machine learning systems.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with robot learning, foundation models, or world models.
Tools
Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Habitat, Gazebo, Python
AI focus
Evaluate robot foundation models and policies; train world models and robotic learning systems; improve sim-to-real transfer and real-world robot performance.
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