Jobs at Humanoid

Lead the scientific direction for embodied intelligence and bipedal robot AI. Build and mentor a world-class team of scientists and engineers, guide research in robot learning, world models, manipulation, perception, and simulation, and translate advances into reliable deployed systems. Establish evaluations, milestones, and learning loops connecting real-world data, simulation, and robots while collaborating with engineering, product, and executive leadership. Represent the team through publications, conferences, and academic and industry partnerships.

Leads a team of prototype engineers and technicians while remaining hands-on with electrical integration, bring-up, troubleshooting, failure analysis, and field repair for humanoid robots. Owns prototype build schedules, lab resources, test procedures, repair documentation, harnesses, cable assemblies, and test fixtures. Collaborates across electrical, mechanical, firmware, and software engineering to improve reliability, manufacturability, test efficiency, and first-pass yield.

Develop and deploy learning-based locomotion and whole-body control policies for humanoid robots. Build motion primitives, simulation and training pipelines, and sim-to-real transfer methods using reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and generative models. Integrate and optimize learned policies for real-time robotic control, then evaluate and debug them on physical robots in collaboration with robotics, controls, simulation, and machine learning teams.

Design and develop electrical systems for humanoid robots, including sensors, compute architecture, power distribution, PCBs, embedded firmware, and electromechanical integrations. Responsibilities include circuit analysis, failure investigation, lab debugging, Linux-based robotics testing, and cross-functional hardware integration. The role requires experience with high-speed communications, power regulation, PCB design, embedded programming, testing automation, mechanical CAD, FPGA hardware design, and Linux kernels or device drivers.

Train and deploy vision-language-action policies for humanoid robots. Responsibilities include pre-training and post-training models using behavior cloning and reinforcement learning, designing data collection and curation processes, managing synthetic and teleoperation data pipelines, identifying failure cases, exploring architectures and modalities, and scaling distributed training for real-time edge inference. The role partners with data, MLOps, platform, and external teams to deliver capable, production-ready autonomy models.

Assemble, integrate, test, calibrate, troubleshoot, and maintain humanoid robotic systems and subassemblies. Support prototyping and development through hands-on assembly and testing, collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and firmware teams, document failures and corrective actions, create technical manuals and SOPs, and manage specialized equipment, tools, and component inventory.

Lead equity fundraising from Series B onward, build investor pipelines, negotiate term sheets, structure hybrid and non-dilutive capital, and develop strategic partnerships with industrial, logistics, compute, AI, and supply-chain companies. Own executive relationships, connect investments to commercial agreements, support public-exit readiness, and report pipeline and deal progress to senior leadership and the board.

Provides administrative, operational, and coordination support to the Business Development team. Responsibilities include CRM and pipeline management, lead qualification and follow-up, customer meeting and demonstration coordination, commercial documentation, reporting, event support, and cross-functional collaboration with Legal, Engineering, and Product. The role also helps improve workflows and requires experience in business development or commercial operations, CRM proficiency, and strong organizational skills.

Leads a new developer productivity team focused on AI coding agents and secure engineering workflows. Builds agent runtimes, developer interfaces, verification systems, CI/CD integrations, and deployment safeguards. Owns the path from agent task through healthy robot deployment, including access controls, monitoring, rollback, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. Recruits and leads engineers while remaining hands-on, partnering across developer tools, security, safety, simulation, and robotics to improve engineering velocity, quality, cost, and safety.

Leads customer discovery, robotics solution design, technical proposals, business cases, pilots, and deployment handoffs. Partners with Commercial, Product, Engineering, Deployment, and customer stakeholders to translate operational needs into scalable humanoid robotics solutions. Initially operates as a hands-on individual contributor, then builds and leads a global Solutions Engineering organization across the UK/EU, US, and MENA, establishing processes, hiring teams, and enabling technical pre-sales.

Leads strategic finance for a humanoid robotics company, owning unit economics, pricing, M&A analysis, debt and capital modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and manufacturing finance. Builds investor- and board-ready models, supports fundraising and major commercial transactions, and partners with operations, supply chain, engineering, and contract manufacturers on cost, capacity, inventory, and scale-up decisions.

Leads the autonomy and robot learning team developing reliable bipedal locomanipulation capabilities for humanoid robots. Owns roadmap, hiring, delivery, evaluation, data strategy, sim-to-real transfer, policy training, and failure diagnosis. Partners with Controls, Simulation, Core Technology, and Hardware teams on whole-body control, VLA models, reinforcement learning, dexterity, and robot design. The role requires hands-on policy development and leadership of applied robot learning engineers.

Lead executive and senior-level recruiting across robotics, manufacturing, and operations. Own complex searches from market mapping and proactive sourcing through stakeholder alignment, offer strategy, negotiation, and closing. Partner with leadership, build senior talent networks, provide market intelligence, and use ATS platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, and AI tools to deliver fast, high-quality hiring outcomes.

Serve as the primary HR partner for Engineering, Hardware, and Software leaders. Coach managers, guide performance and employee-relations decisions, develop technical career frameworks, support organizational design and workforce planning, identify retention risks, and improve hiring and people processes. The role combines strategic HR partnership with hands-on execution in a rapidly scaling deep-tech robotics environment.

Lead sales and business development for humanoid robots across warehouse, logistics, automotive, and manufacturing markets. Own the full sales cycle, secure pre-sales, partnerships, and commercial agreements, develop ROI-based business cases, build executive relationships, and achieve ambitious targets. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, monitor competitors, and manage P&L and financial modeling activities.

Lead sales and business development for humanoid robots across warehouse, logistics, automotive, and manufacturing markets. Own the full sales cycle, secure pre-sales, commercial agreements, partnerships, and pre-orders, and develop ROI-driven business cases. Build executive relationships, exceed sales targets, coordinate with product and engineering, analyze competitors, and support go-to-market strategy. The role also requires P&L management and financial modeling experience.

Leads global commercial contracting, including customer, supplier, manufacturing, reseller, and technology partnership agreements. Drafts and negotiates contracts, advises sales and supply chain teams, manages IP and disputes, oversees outside counsel, and builds the contracting operating model. Implements CLM and AI contract review tools, establishes templates and playbooks, ensures regulatory alignment, and develops the contracts team while advising senior executives.

Leads legal operations across the United States and Canada, advising on regulatory matters for production and R&D, intellectual property, disputes, commercial contracts, public policy, corporate and financing work. Manages outside counsel, legal infrastructure, governance, compliance coordination, and regional legal team growth while serving as the senior legal representative for North America.

Leads product cybersecurity assurance for humanoid robots across design, development, certification, deployment, and post-market operations. Responsibilities include security requirements, threat modeling, risk assessments, compliance with IEC 62443 and EU regulations, audit documentation, incident response, vulnerability disclosure, fleet monitoring, certification support, and leadership of cross-functional security engineers.

Own planning and execution of complex humanoid robotics programs from concept through deployment. Coordinate globally distributed hardware and software teams, manage scope, schedule, cost, risks, dependencies, suppliers, and cross-functional workstreams. Drive alignment, remove blockers, communicate with stakeholders, and apply technical judgment across systems, safety, mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, AI/ML, integration, testing, production, and supply chain.