Member of Technical Staff - Head of Robotics

The role

This person will build the bridge between simulation, world models, and real-world robotic systems. They will evaluate robot foundation models, train world models, and deploy physical robots.

What you will do

• Benchmark and evaluate robot foundation models in simulated environments
• Design evaluation frameworks for robotic reasoning, planning, manipulation, and navigation
• Build infrastructure for large-scale simulation-based testing and validation
• Develop and train world models that enable robots to understand and predict environment dynamics
• Build systems that learn from multimodal robot data
• Collect and curate real-world robotics datasets
• Train and fine-tune models using both simulated and physical robot data
• Improve sim-to-real transfer for robotic policies and world models
• Set up, integrate, and maintain robotic hardware platforms
• Bring learned policies and world models onto real robotic systems

Required qualifications

• Strong background in robotics, embodied AI, machine learning, or related fields
• Experience working with physical robotic systems
• Experience with robotic simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Habitat, Gazebo, or similar
• Familiarity with robot learning, foundation models, or world models
• Strong software engineering skills in Python and robotics tooling
• Experience deploying software onto real robotic hardware
• Ability to debug across hardware, software, and machine learning systems
• Comfort working in a fast-moving research and engineering environment

About the company

Moonlake is building the frontier of AI-powered world simulation. They create systems that generate, simulate, and reason over rich 3D environments for robotics, embodied AI, and interactive applications.