A fellowship for senior roboticists and researchers who need a simulator that can keep up with what they're building. You bring the ideas and the experience. We bring the engine, the engineers, and whatever needs to get built.
We're looking for experienced people with a track record of training robots to do real things. We want you using our simulator, giving us feedback, and pushing it past what it currently does. If you're a researcher with ideas you want to test but you can't find a simulator that handles what you need, that's the gap we're trying to close.
Working with us means you have a direct line to the engineers who write the robotics engine. Not a support ticket. Not a forum post. The people who can change the engine are the people you'll be talking to.
If you're interested in working with us full time, we're open to that. But we're also interested in how talented people use our software and how they wish it worked differently. Both paths start here.
Who this is for
We're mainly looking for researchers working on real tasks deployed in realistic settings, not toy problems on a tabletop. Examples:
This isn't only for roboticists, though. If you need custom physics environments for any reason, you qualify. We can give you a custom build with custom sensors (WiFi mapping, for example) and custom physics (change gravity, change anything). If your idea needs the simulator to do something it doesn't do yet, that's the kind of problem we want to work on with you.
What you get
Who should apply (senior researchers)
This fellowship is aimed at experienced researchers and engineers. Fill out this application if you meet at least one of these:
- 3+ years of experience at one of the world's top robotics firms or labs, or
- A PhD or Master's from a major US university in a robotics-adjacent field.
Your resume matters, but we also need a clear explanation of what you have in mind: what you'd want to test, what the simulator would need to do for you, and why you can't do it with what exists today. That explanation matters as much as the credentials.
How it works
- Apply. Submit the form below with your background and what you want to build. We read every one.
- Talk. If there's a fit, we set up a conversation with our engineers to figure out what you need from the simulator and whether we can build it.
- Get a custom build. If it makes sense, you get a build tailored to your research: custom sensors, custom physics, whatever your work requires.
- Build, test, feedback. You do your research in the engine. You tell us what works and what doesn't. We ship fixes and features. Repeat.
What we're looking for in your application
We're not grading on formatting. We want to understand two things: what you've done, and what you want to do next. Specifically:
- A track record of training robots to do real things. Policies that transferred to hardware, tasks that ran in realistic settings, work that shipped.
- A specific thing you want to test or build, and what's missing from current simulators that's stopping you.
- Honesty about constraints. If you need custom physics, custom sensors, or a particular robot, tell us. We can probably help.
Apply
If this sounds like you, apply below. We read every application.