Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Humanoid Robotics Loco-Manipulation

NVIDIA is seeking exceptional machine learning engineers to join our world-class robotics initiatives focused on humanoid loco-manipulation. As part of the Isaac Loco-Manipulation team, you’ll collaborate with industry-leading experts, contribute to robotics foundation models including GR00T and Cosmos, and help define the future of humanoid robot capabilities. We are looking for strategic, ambitious, and creative individuals passionate about advancing the boundaries of robotics.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to define and execute projects in humanoid robotics loco-manipulation and mobile manipulation areas.

• Contribute to the development and advancement of GR00T and Cosmos foundation models.

• Develop reference workflows with Isaac Lab and Newton for humanoid and mobile manipulation dexterous tasks.

• Advance technologies for robot learning and synthetic data generation using human videos.

• Design, implement, and deploy novel algorithms for humanoid robot locomotion and manipulation in both simulated and real-world environments.

• Transfer innovations into products, with deliverables including prototypes, open source software contributions, patents, and/or publications in top conferences and journals.

What we need to see:

• PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• 5+ years of experience working on robotics software.

• Strong programming skills in Python and C++.

• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow, and physics simulation tools like Isaac Sim/Lab or MuJoCo.

• Expertise in foundation models for robotics and 3D perception.

• Experience with sim-to-real and real-to-sim transfer in robotics.

• Deep knowledge of robot learning, including imitation and reinforcement learning.

• Hands-on experience training Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.

• Experience generating synthetic data for robotics applications.

• Great communication and collaboration skills.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience learning from human video demonstrations or human-object reconstruction.

• Expertise in dexterous bimanual manipulation or whole-body control.

• Proven track record in robotics research, including publications in top conferences (e.g., RSS, ICRA, CoRL, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR).

• Demonstrated technical leadership experience.

With highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to outstanding growth, our special engineering teams are growing fast. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a genuine passion for technology, we want to hear from you!

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until March 7, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

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