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Persona AI, Inc.

Robotics Simulation Engineer

Houston, TX · On-site

$85 - $120/hr

Persona's founding team has a decades‑long history in humanoid robotics, bionics, and product development delivering robust hardware that has touched the stars, worked miles below the surface of ...

Persona AI, Inc.

Welding Engineer

Houston, TX · On-site

$80 - $100/hr

Persona AI is developing and commercializing rugged, multi-purpose humanoid robots that perform real work. Persona's founding team has a decades-long history in humanoid robotics, bionics, and ...

Persona AI

Robotics Assembly Lead

Houston, TX · On-site

Persona AI founding team has a decades-long history in humanoid robotics, bionics, and product development delivering robust hardware that has touched the stars, worked miles below the surface of the ...

Insight Global

Virtual Reality Gaming Specialist

Austin, TX · On-site

$16.50 - $17/hr

Leading robotics company About the Role: This position gives you the chance to work directly with cutting‐edge humanoid robotics. You'll use VR and sensory tools to control robots, support ongoing ...

Persona AI

Process Engineer

Houston, TX · On-site

Persona's founding team has a decades-long history in humanoid robotics, bionics, and product development delivering robust hardware that has touched the stars, worked miles below the surface of the ...

Persona AI

Mechanical Engineer

Houston, TX · On-site

Houston, TX Travel: 10% Who We Are Persona AI is building humanoid robots for the most demanding environments in heavy industry - shipyards, steel mills, fabrication facilities, and offshore ...

Apptronik

Firmware Engineer - Actuation

Austin, TX · On-site

Our flagship humanoid robot, Apollo, is built to collaborate thoughtfully with people, starting with critical industries such as manufacturing and logistics, with future applications in healthcare, ...

Persona AI

Structural Robotics Assembler

Houston, TX · On-site

Persona AI founding team has a decades-long history in humanoid robotics, bionics, and product development delivering robust hardware that has touched the stars, worked miles below the surface of the ...

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What is the difference between Humanoid Robotics vs Robot Software Engineer?

AspectHumanoid RoboticsRobot Software Engineer
Required CredentialsBachelor's or Master's in Robotics, Mechanical, or Electrical EngineeringBachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related fields
Work EnvironmentResearch labs, robotics companies, universitiesTech companies, robotics firms, software development teams
Industry UsageDesigning and building humanoid robotsDeveloping software for various robotic systems
Common Search IntentUnderstanding roles in humanoid robot developmentLearning about software development for robots

Humanoid Robotics involves designing and building humanoid robots, requiring knowledge in mechanical and electrical engineering. Robot Software Engineers focus on developing the software that controls robotic systems, emphasizing programming skills. While both roles work within the robotics industry, Humanoid Robotics is more hardware-oriented, whereas Robot Software Engineering centers on software development. Both roles often collaborate but serve different aspects of robotics projects.

What jobs will humanoid robots do?

Humanoid robots are increasingly used in roles such as customer service, healthcare assistance, hospitality, and retail support. They perform tasks like greeting customers, providing information, and assisting with basic service functions, often requiring programming skills and familiarity with robotics systems.

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Staff Software Engineer - Humanoid Controls

Austin, TX • On-site

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Staff Software Engineer - Humanoid Controls

$225-300k base salary + equity

Austin, TX - Hybrid (relocation support available)


I’m partnered with a leading humanoid robotics company developing AI-powered robots for deployment in real-world environments. They’re looking for a Staff Humanoid Controls Software Engineer to join the Motion Control & Planning team and tackle the hardest problems in modern robotics.


This is a senior-level technical role with broad ownership across the controls stack. You’ll work across whole-body control, locomotion, mobile manipulation, dexterous control, teleoperation and reinforcement learning, translating state-of-the-art methods into robust capabilities running on physical humanoid robots.


What You’ll Work On

  • Advance whole-body control across both bipedal and wheeled-base robotic platforms, coordinating locomotion/base motion with upper-body manipulation.
  • Develop and improve WBC/OSC, QP and MPC-based controllers for complex floating-base systems
  • Combine model-based control and learning-based approaches, including RL-trained policies developed in simulation and transferred onto hardware
  • Tackle problems across dexterous/hand control, mobile manipulation, teleoperation and state estimation
  • Take algorithms from simulation to hardware bring-up and deployment, with measurable improvements to speed, payload, reliability and safety
  • Improve the underlying controls architecture, including real-time performance, testing, robustness and maintainability
  • Set technical direction across the controls stack and collaborate closely with locomotion, manipulation, RL, estimation, hardware and systems teams
  • Mentor other engineers and influence engineering standards across the broader robotics organization


What They’re Looking For

  • Deep expertise in robot kinematics, dynamics, state estimation, optimization and control theory
  • Significant experience with whole-body control for floating-base, legged or mobile robotic systems
  • Hands-on experience applying reinforcement learning/learning-based control to robotics.
  • Strong real-time C++ and Python software engineering experience
  • A track record of developing production-grade controllers and getting algorithms working reliably on physical robot hardware
  • MS/PhD in Robotics, CS, EE, ME or equivalent experience


Experience with dexterous manipulation, legged locomotion, production robotic fleets or safety-critical robotics is particularly valuable.


This is an opportunity to operate at Staff level on problems that sit directly at the intersection of modern control theory, reinforcement learning and humanoid robotics with the resources and mandate to turn advanced research into robots that operate at scale in the real world.


Interested? Hit apply now or reach out to m.wright@lawrenceharvey.com directly with a copy of your resume.

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