Metamorphic
Robotics Engineer (Simulation, Hardware & Deployment)
$175K–$250K
Palo Alto · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jun 3, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is offered, including for international candidates.
About the job
Own the end-to-end process of moving robotics policies between simulation and physical hardware, including simulation, robot platforms, teleoperation, and reliable software and data infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Integrate and maintain physics simulators, robot platforms, drivers, calibration pipelines, and data-recording infrastructure.
- Build and operate teleoperation systems for collecting demonstrations.
- Deploy and evaluate policies on hardware, troubleshoot sim-to-real gaps, and improve integration with models and environments.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong software engineering skills and working proficiency in Python; comfort with C++ for real-time and driver-level work.
- Hands-on experience with robotics simulation pipelines and bringing up and operating real robot hardware, including end-effector integration, calibration, and safety procedures.
- Working knowledge of ROS/ROS 2 and experience recording and validating synchronized robot trajectory data.
Nice to have
- Experience designing and operating teleoperation systems or familiarity with sim-to-real transfer techniques.
- Familiarity with containerization, motion planning, inverse kinematics, classical control, GPU debugging, or computer vision.
Pay
$175,000 - $250,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++, ROS/ROS 2, URDFs, GPU drivers, RGB-D cameras, force/torque sensors, IMUs
AI focus
Deploy and evaluate machine-learning policies on robots, diagnose sim-to-real gaps, and iterate on model, environment, and hardware integration.
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