Controls Engineer, Locomotion

GRAM Corporation

El Segundo, United States
Base: $150,000-$250,000 usd; bonus/equity: signifi...
On-site
Built robot locomotion stack on real hardware
Deployed learned policy from simulation to physical robot
Experience with multi-legged or contact-rich platforms
The role involves owning the self-traversal locomotion policy from simulation through hardware deployment on complex steel lattice structures

Job Summary

  • The role involves owning the self-traversal locomotion policy from simulation through hardware deployment on complex steel lattice structures.
  • Candidates must have personally taken a learned policy or controller from simulation into physical deployment on multi-legged platforms.
  • Compensation includes a base salary range of $150,000-$250,000 USD along with significant early-stage equity and relocation assistance.

Matching Summary

The role involves owning the self-traversal locomotion policy from simulation through hardware deployment on complex steel lattice structures.

Salary

Base: $150,000-$250,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: Significant early-stage equity; Benefits: Health/dental/vision coverage, paid meals, and relocation assistance

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Built robot locomotion stack on real hardware
  • Deployed learned policy from simulation to physical robot
  • Experience with multi-legged or contact-rich platforms
  • Fluent in Python and modern robotics stacks like Isaac Lab or MuJoCo
  • Understanding of both reinforcement learning and classical contact mechanics

Nice-to-have

  • Publications in legged locomotion or sim-to-real transfer conferences
  • Experience with vision-conditioned locomotion and local geometry perception
  • Work on non-planar contact including climbing or inversion
  • Familiarity with whole-body analytical control like TSID or OCS2
  • Lab lineage from top robotics research groups

Key Requirements

  • Proven experience deploying learned policies on physical hardware
  • Proficiency in Python and robotics frameworks such as ROS2 or Drake
  • Background in debugging across abstraction layers from policy to actuator limits

Work Rights

Not specified

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