Simulation Engineer Manipulation
HumanoidVisit Humanoid website
UK-based AI and robotics company building commercially scalable humanoid robots for industrial deployment.
London, United Kingdom
Funding history
About Humanoid
Humanoid develops industrial humanoid robots and its proprietary KinetIQ AI framework for real-world tasks across manufacturing, logistics, and related environments.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and maintain physics-based simulation environments for dexterous manipulation tasks. You will develop gym environments, observation and action spaces, and reward functions; reduce reward hacking and sim-to-real gaps; integrate 3D assets; validate physics; optimize simulation throughput; and improve evaluation and reinforcement learning infrastructure.
Requirements
- 3+ years building simulation environments or game-engine-based interactive systems
- Experience with physics simulators or physically accurate game-engine interactions
- Experience running large-scale parallel simulation on GPU clusters
- Python
- Modern software engineering practices
- Experiment documentation and communication
Responsibilities
- Design and implement gym environments for manipulation tasks
- Define observation spaces, action spaces, and reward functions
- Analyze and address reward hacking
- Reduce the sim-to-real gap through physics tuning, asset fidelity, and real-world validation
- Procure, validate, and integrate 3D assets
- Ensure correct contact dynamics, friction, mass properties, and joint limits
- Reduce simulation bottlenecks and improve training throughput
- Improve simulation-based evaluation and reinforcement learning infrastructure
Benefits
- Stock options
- 30+ paid days off
- Private healthcare
- Pension scheme with 8% total contribution
- Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office