Senior Research Engineer, Robotics Systems
NVIDIA, US, CA, Santa Clara
About the job
NVIDIA is searching for a senior or principal engineer who specializes in robotics systems in the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group. Our team is leading Project GR00T, NVIDIA’s moonshot initiative at building foundation models and full-stack technology for humanoid robots. You will work with an amazing and collaborative research team that consistently produces influential works on multimodal foundation models, large-scale robot learning, embodied AI, and physics simulation. Our past projects include Eureka, VIMA, Voyager, MineDojo, MimicPlay, Prismer, and more. Your contributions will have a significant impact on our research projects and product roadmaps.
What you will be doing
- Design and maintain teleoperation software for controlling humanoid robots with low latency and high precision;
- Develop and optimize the control stack, including locomotion, manipulation, and whole-body control algorithms;
- Deploy and evaluate neural network models in physics simulation and on real humanoid hardware;
- Implement tools and processes for regular robot maintenance, diagnostics, and troubleshooting to ensure system reliability;