Senior Robotics Research Engineer, Robotics and AI for Drug Discovery

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Using NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, and Matterix to build digital twins of robots, laboratory environments, and scientific procedures
• Using NVIDIA Newton to simulate the physics of robots, articulated rigid bodies, deformable objects, granular media, and fluids
• Developing perception pipelines for object detection, pose estimation, and tracking, leveraging multisensory inputs (e.g., RGB, depth, force/torque, tactile) and foundation models
• Translate experimental protocols into executable physical procedures and smooth, collision-free trajectories by using VLMs and developing task and motion planning pipelines
• Training robots to solve contact-rich manipulation tasks through a combination of imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and high-performance control
• Building real-world systems that perform discovery, manufacturing, testing, and validation procedures with extremely high reliability and efficiency
• Integrating these systems into real-world biological experiment workflows
• Collaborating with research scientists in the Seattle Robotics Lab to elevate early-stage research findings and integrate them into a mature automation and autonomy stack