Humanoid Locomotion Engineer
$120,000–$150,000 year
Remote · Pensacola, Florida, United States or Houston, Texas, United States
Pensacola, Florida, United States or Houston, Texas, United StatesRemoteFull Time$120,000–$150,000 yearMid LevelMasters DegreeUnknown
Type
Full Time
Level
Mid Level
Education
Masters Degree
Company size
Unknown
Job Summary
Join Persona AI as a Humanoid Locomotion Engineer to develop cutting-edge control strategies for humanoid robots. Utilize your expertise in robotics and programming in a mission-driven environment.
Required Qualifications
- MS or PhD in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Experience in bipedal locomotion control, legged robotics, and dynamic systems.
- Expertise in model-based control techniques (e.g., inverse dynamics, MPC) or learning based locomotion (e.g. reinforcement learning, PPO)
- Experience developing controllers / policies for legged robots with hardware in the real world.
- Experience with physics-based simulation tools (e.g., IsaacLab, MuJoCo).
- Proficiency in Python and either Rust, C, or C++ as well as capable of writing high quality software.
Desired Qualifications
- Background in kinematics, dynamics, and optimization for robotic motion.
- Proficiency in either Rust, C, or C++ for low latency control implementation.
- Familiarity with DDS, ROS, RCP or other middleware for robotic systems.
- Knowledge of hardware actuation, compliance control, and force-based interactions.
- Understanding of energy-efficient locomotion strategies for long-duration operation.
- Published papers at top ML/Robotics conferences (ICML, ICRA, CoRL, RSS, NeurIPS).
- Experience with cloud computing to develop models, store data, etc. (AWS, Azure, GCP)
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