Company Overview

Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.

We are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world’s best team in AI robotics. We are looking for self-starters that are the world’s best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination.

Role Description

We are looking to recruit an exceptional Modeling & Simulation Engineer - Robot Manipulation to work on our models and simulation pipeline for complex robot manipulation tasks.

In this role you will:

• Define simulation requirements.
• Develop cutting-edge mathematical models of robots, manipulators and the scenes in which they operate.
• Strike the perfect balance between fidelity and computational complexity.
• Integrate models into reinforcement learning workflows that run at massive scale.
• Work closely with the Simulation, Motion Planning & Controls, and Intelligence teams.

Qualifications

Must-have:

• MS or PhD in engineering, mathematics, computer science or a related discipline.
• Experience in mathematical modeling of complex dynamic systems.
• Ability to take ownership of a large, strategically important development project and drive its success.
• Self-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions.
• Enthusiasm for working in a fast paced startup environment and eagerness to support the team on a variety of topics.

Nice-to-have:

• Familiarity with environments for robotic simulation.
• Experience in some combination of:
• applied optimization.
• ML approaches to control of manipulators.
• modeling of mechanical contact.
• creation of detailed 3D world models.
• GPU acceleration of physics simulations.
• deployment of numerically-intensive simulations to cloud compute platforms.