Robotics Research Engineer, Reality Labs Research

We are looking for a Research Engineer with experience in software engineering, robotic systems integration, and machine learning to join our team within Reality Labs Research. You will work full-stack, deploying control policies and models on robotic embodiments, bringing-up systems for robotics data collections, and leveraging in-house human wearable sensing systems. You will work with a broad and highly interdisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and designers, and will have access to cutting edge technology, resources, and testing facilities.Robotics Research Engineer, Reality Labs Research Responsibilities

• Define and implement data collection protocols for collecting robot and human data and collaborate cross-functionally to collect quality data that will be used for robotic policy training
• Build, bring-up, and maintain prototype software and hardware systems for robot and/or human data collections
• Develop data pipelines that load, validate, preprocess, and clean up data to enable ML/CV training and evaluation
• Implement, integrate, and test ML models and control policies on real-time robotic manipulation systems. Evaluate Sim2Real gaps

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
• 2+ years of research or industry experience in robotics-related fields
• 3+ years of experience coding with Python, using deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch), and software engineering best practices (version control, code reviews)
• Experience working with robotics-oriented frameworks like ROS or other real-world robotic control frameworks
• Experience bringing-up and debugging prototype/scientific software-hardware systems (e.g., robotics platforms, multi-camera systems, human sensing systems)
• Experience collaborating and communicating cross-functionally

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in robotics research, especially dexterous manipulation, robotic policy, and control theory
• Experience designing data collection protocols, developing data pipelines, and constructing high quality machine learning datasets
• Experience in computer vision, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, vision-language-action (VLA) models, multimodal representation learning, self-supervised learning, or other advanced ML/CV techniques

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$56.25/hour to $173,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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