Robot Software Engineer (Simulation)

About the Company

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain simulation environments for humanoid robot platforms using physics-based models like MuJoCo, IsaacSim, or PyBullet
• Develop and validate motion planning, control loops, state estimation, and actuator interfaces in simulation
• Integrate simulation pipelines with perception, teleoperation, logging, and data collection infrastructure
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to build sim-to-real pipelines for policy training
• Debug discrepancies between simulated and real hardware behavior
• Write production-quality, testable code and contribute to software architecture decisions

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in robotics software engineering
• Proficiency with major robotics simulation platforms (MuJoCo, IsaacSim, PyBullet, Gazebo, etc.)
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python and/or C++
• Hands-on experience with motion planning, control loops, state estimation, or actuator interfaces
• Experience integrating software components across complex stacks
• Ability to work directly with physical hardware and debug sim-to-real discrepancies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building sim-to-real pipelines for reinforcement learning or imitation learning
• Familiarity with humanoid or legged robot platforms
• Background in whole-body control, trajectory optimization, or model predictive control
• Experience with ROS/ROS2 middleware
• Prior work on early-stage hardware programs or open-source robotics tooling