Member of Technical Staff - Head of Robotics
San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 10mo ago
About the role
Moonlake is seeking a hands-on Member of Technical Staff – Robotics to bridge simulation, world models, and real-world robotic systems. The role spans the full robotics stack, from evaluating foundation models in simulation to deploying and operating physical robots, collaborating with researchers and engineers to advance next-generation simulation environments and AI systems.
Responsibilities
- Benchmark and evaluate robot foundation models in simulated environments
- Design evaluation frameworks for robotic reasoning, planning, manipulation, and navigation
- Measure generalization, robustness, and task performance across diverse scenarios
- Build infrastructure for large-scale simulation-based testing and validation
- Develop and train world models that enable robots to understand and predict environment dynamics
- Build systems that learn from multimodal robot data including vision, depth, state, and actions
- Improve environment understanding, forecasting, and decision-making capabilities
- Work closely with simulation and AI teams to advance robotic world modeling systems
- Collect and curate real-world robotics datasets
- Train and fine-tune models using both simulated and physical robot data
- Improve sim-to-real transfer for robotic policies and world models
- Develop workflows connecting simulation, training infrastructure, and deployed robotic systems
- Set up, integrate, and maintain robotic hardware platforms
- Bring learned policies and world models onto real robotic systems
- Debug hardware, software, sensing, and control issues
- Develop deployment pipelines for testing, validation, and continuous improvement
- Work directly with robotic manipulators, mobile robots, sensors, and compute systems
Qualifications
- Strong background in robotics, embodied AI, machine learning, or related fields
- Experience working with physical robotic systems
- Experience with robotic simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Habitat, Gazebo, or similar
- Familiarity with robot learning, foundation models, or world models
- Strong software engineering skills in Python and robotics tooling
- Experience deploying software onto real robotic hardware
- Ability to debug across hardware, software, and machine learning systems
- Comfort working in a fast-moving research and engineering environment
Skills
Required:RoboticsPhysical robot systemsRobotic simulation platformsRobot learning / foundation models / world modelsPythonDeployment on real hardware
Benefits
- Not specified in the description
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Moonlake
We’re building AI so anyone can create interactive worlds.
Moonlake AI is a team of Stanford CS PhDs, Math Olympiad and ACM ICPC medalists, industry veterans from NVIDIA, Meta, Epic Games, and Netflix, with the mission of democratizing studio-grade interactive worlds.
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