Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics

Research Engineer, Atlas Physics Simulation for RL

Waltham Office (POST), USA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 34 days ago
DockerKubernetesRoboticsResearch

About the role

  • Are you passionate about using physics simulation, reinforcement learning and humanoid robots?
  • Curious what you'd be able to accomplish with total access to Boston Dynamics robots?
  • As a Research Engineer working on physics simulation on the Atlas Behavior Learning team, you will join a world-class team of engineers and scientists focused on creating groundbreaking mobile manipulation behaviors for humanoids.

Responsibilities

  • Build synthetic rendering pipelines to create photorealistic images

Requirements

  • Extensive experience with physics simulation including MuJoCo, IsaacSim and Warp
  • Experience with rendering pipelines to create photorealistic synthetic images

Nice to have

  • Publications at top tier robotics venues including RSS, CoRL, Science Robotics, ICRA
  • Experience training RL policies in simulation for robots or simulated characters
  • Strong understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of gpu based simulators
  • Understanding of GPU and CPU compute architectures
  • Experience with heterogeneous compute clusters, kubernetes and docker
  • Direct access to cutting-edge robots and the infrastructure to run large-scale experiments
  • A collaborative, mission-driven team where your ideas have real impact
  • The chance to help define what's possible in real-world robotics

Benefits

  • Develop large scale physics simulation that can efficiently train reinforcement learning agents

Company info

  • We are investing in reinforcement learning and physics simulation as a key technology for achieving dexterous and robust whole-body manipulation that can be deployed in real-world environments.

This listing is sourced directly from Boston Dynamics's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.