Research Engineer, Atlas Physics Simulation for RL

Boston Dynamics • Waltham, MA

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About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

• MS with 3 years of industry experience or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field
• Detailed understanding physics simulation including contact solvers and mesh representations
• Extensive experience with physics simulation including MuJoCo, IsaacSim and Warp
• Experience with rendering pipelines to create photorealistic synthetic images
• Strong foundation in Python, C++ and modern numerical frameworks (e.g., PyTorch and Jax)
• Experience in algorithm design, debugging, and performance optimization

Nice To Haves

• A PhD or equivalent research experience in reinforcement learning or robotic manipulation
• 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

Responsibilities

• Develop large scale physics simulation that can efficiently train reinforcement learning agents
• Evaluate and benchmark different physics simulators, mesh representations and rendering pipelines
• Scale physics simulations to generate millions of samples per second
• Build synthetic rendering pipelines to create photorealistic images
• Extend existing physics simulators to improve simulation quality

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401(k)
• paid time off
• annual bonus structure

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior