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Machine Learning: Whole-Body Control

The Bot Company · San Francisco · On-site

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About the role

Train whole-body policies for locomotion, manipulation, and coordinated motion. Build scalable simulation environments in IsaacLab, MuJoCo, or similar with parallel rollouts.

What they're looking for

  • Very strong coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust. CUDA is a plus
  • Strong foundations in modern reinforcement learning
  • Experience training embodied control policies
  • Hands-on robotics simulation experience
  • Solid intuition for dynamics, contact, and actuation
  • Comfortable running large-scale GPU experiments
More about this role

We're building a helpful robot for every home.

We're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.

Our team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.

All roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:

Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.

Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.

High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.

We are building high-performance whole-body controllers that produce robust, agile...

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