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Automation Engineer - Robotics V

Spectraforce Technologies
United States, New York, New York
Oct 13, 2026
Job Title: Automation Engineer - Robotics V Duration: 12 Months Location: Onsite in New York, NY or Menlo Park CA Job Description: Scope: Owns the path from trained model to reliable on-robot execution - standing up and maintaining a humanoid platform, building the deployment pipeline from checkpoint to real-time control, and running the sim-to-real loop. Also acts as technical owner on our side of an external hardware collaboration. Onsite work with powered robotic hardware, lab and robot safety protocols, access to pre-release research artifacts. Required skills: Hands-on deployment of learned policies to physical humanoid/legged robots including bring-up and maintenance Real-time control and low-level integration (ROS/ROS2, onboard compute, sensors/actuators) Sim-to-real transfer with domain randomization Python/C++ with PyTorch inference on onboard hardware Robot safety practices around people Must-Have Skills: BS/MS in robotics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science or equivalent hands-on industry experience. Nice-to-have Skills: Robotics experience deploying things onto a robot i.e. machine learning models onto robots. Direct experience with commercial mid-size or full-size humanoids; Whole-body control/locomotion/manipulation stacks; Being technical POC in a vendor or cross-org hardware collaboration; Teleop and mocap rigs; Hardware failure diagnosis and spares logistics. Years of Experience: 5 years Degrees/Certifications Required: Bachelor's preferred - experience is considered How many rounds of interviews? 2 interviews One with CWAM/one with IC technical conversation no coding Types of Interviews: Interview Duration: 30 mins