Senior Member of Technical Staff: Reinforcement Learning for Wholebody Control (Robotics)

Location: Cambridge, MA, United States

Company

hirify.global is building general-purpose humanoid robots for use in homes, workplaces, factories, farms, and other environments.

What you will do

• Design, train, and tune reinforcement-learning policies for humanoid balance, locomotion, and coordinated manipulation.
• Integrate learned policies with classical and model-based control and high-level motion commands.
• Own the sim-to-real pipeline, including domain randomization, system identification, hardware transfer, and real-robot debugging.
• Build infrastructure for repeatable policy training, evaluation, versioning, and deployment.
• Develop rigorous simulation and hardware evaluation, ensuring safe behavior and graceful degradation.
• Collaborate with controls, hardware, simulation, and AI engineers across the robot software stack.

Requirements

• Proven experience developing and training reinforcement-learning policies for continuous control.
• Demonstrated success transferring learned policies from simulation to physical robots and deploying them on real hardware.
• Strong grounding in control theory, robot dynamics, and learned/model-based control integration.
• Hands-on experience with GPU-accelerated simulation at scale.
• Strong Python and working C++ skills for training and deployment infrastructure.
• Experience with whole-body control, locomotion, or manipulation on humanoid, legged, or similarly high-DOF robots.

Nice to have

• Experience with model predictive control, whole-body QP controllers, or trajectory optimization.
• Background in system identification, actuator modeling, or contact-rich dynamics.
• Experience with large-scale ML training infrastructure and experiment tracking.
• Familiarity with imitation learning, teleoperation data, or learning from demonstration.
• Publications or demonstrated results in legged locomotion or whole-body control.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation with salary, annual cash bonus, and company equity.
• Company-subsidized insurance programs and a 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible paid time off and daily lunch.
• Collaborative environment grounded in humility and creative technical work.
• hirify.global participates in E-Verify; employment authorization documents are verified after an offer through the Form I-9 process.