Senior / Staff Sim-to-Real Engineer (Tendon-based Robotic Hands)

Highlights

• Bridge simulation to hardware for tendon-driven robotic hands on humanoid Apollo.
• Own sim-to-real pipeline ensuring control policies transfer zero-shot to hardware.
• Create accurate abstractions of complex tendon routing, friction and elasticity.

Ideal candidate

Autonomous senior roboticist who loves closing the reality gap for dexterous hands through hands-on testing and model refinement, partnering closely with controls and RL teams to ship robust hardware behavior.

Requirements

• 5+ years post-graduation experience in robotics, controls, or physical simulation
• Proven track record transferring RL-based control policies from simulation to hardware
• Deep hands-on experience with control and system identification of QDD actuators
• Strong foundation in rigid multi-body dynamics, kinematic calibration and inertial identification
• Experience characterizing friction, effort production and hardware-software discrepancies
• BS, MS or PhD in Robotics, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science or related field