- Robot type
- Robot AI and Software
- Location
- Santa ClaraCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Business Operations
- Posted
- Jul 30, 2026
Senior Research Engineer, Robotics Systems
Job description
NVIDIA is searching for a senior or principal engineer who specializes in robotics systems in the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group. Our team is leading Project GR00T , NVIDIA’s moonshot initiative at building foundation models and full-stack technology for humanoid robots. You will work with an amazing and collaborative research team that consistently produces influential works on multimodal foundation models, large-scale robot learning, embodied AI, and physics simulation. Our past projects include Eureka , VIMA , Voyager , MineDojo , MimicPlay , Prismer , and more. Your contributions will have a significant impact on our research projects and product roadmaps.
Job responsibilities
- Design and maintain teleoperation software for controlling humanoid robots with low latency and high precision;
- Develop and optimize the control stack, including locomotion, manipulation, and whole-body control algorithms;
- Deploy and evaluate neural network models in physics simulation and on real humanoid hardware;
- Implement tools and processes for regular robot maintenance, diagnostics, and troubleshooting to ensure system reliability;
- Monitor teleoperators at the lab and develop quality assurance workflows to ensure high-quality data collection;
- Collaborate with researchers on model training, data processing, and the full MLOps lifecycle.
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