Research Engineer, Atlas Behavior Learning
2 days ago
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Summary
Boston Dynamics is seeking a Research Engineer, Atlas Behavior Learning to join their team in Waltham, MA. The role involves using reinforcement learning, behavioral cloning, and physics simulation to create mobile manipulation behaviors for humanoid robots.
About the Role
As a Research Engineer on the Atlas Behavior Learning team, you will be responsible for training RL and BC policies for bi-manual manipulation tasks, writing control code for deploying trained policies to Atlas, leading the development of evaluation frameworks for benchmarking policies, and collaborating with research scientists on advanced algorithms.
About You
Required:
- MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field.
- Experience training, deploying and debugging RL policies on real robots.
- Strong foundation in Python, C++ and modern numerical frameworks (e.g., PyTorch and Jax).
Preferred:
- 3+ years of industry experience working on robotics, machine learning or related field.
- Extensive experience with training RL policies in simulation with domain randomization.
- Experience with writing real-time control software for robots.
Benefits
- Direct access to cutting-edge robots and infrastructure for large-scale experiments.
- A collaborative, mission-driven team where your ideas have real impact.
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics builds advanced mobile manipulation robots with remarkable mobility, dexterity perception and agility. We use sensor-based controls and computation to unlock the potential of complex mechanisms. Our world-class development teams develop prototypes for wild new concepts, do build-test-build engineering and field testing and transform successful designs into robot products. Our goal is to change your idea of what robots can do.
Waltham, MA