Automation Engineer V

• Location: Los Angeles, California
• Type: Contract
• Job #107675

Automation / Robotics Engineer

Pay: Starting at $92/hr
Location: Menlo Park, CA or New York, NY
Duration: 1 year, with possible extension or conversion
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Description

The main function of an automation engineer is to design, program, simulate, and test automated technology and processes in order to carry out specific tasks. The typical automation engineer is responsible for detailed design specifications and other documents in the process of creation.
Required Skills

• Hands-on deployment of learned policies to physical humanoid/legged robots, including bring-up and maintenance.
• Real-time control and low-level integration (ROS/ROS2, onboard compute, sensors/actuators).
• Sim-to-real transfer with domain randomization.
• Python/C++ with PyTorch inference on onboard hardware.
• Robot safety practices around people.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Robotics, EE, ME or CS, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Nice-to-Haves

• Direct experience with commercial mid-size or full-size humanoids.
• Whole-body control/locomotion/manipulation stacks.
• Being technical POC in a vendor or cross-org hardware collaboration.
• Teleop and mocap rigs.
• Hardware failure diagnosis and spares logistics.

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