Robotics Researcher, Navigation

Menlo Research is an Applied R&D lab building Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot platform, and the full software stack that powers it. Our mission is to make humanoid labor economically viable -- turning software into physical labor at scale. We build across the full stack: hardware architecture, locomotion, autonomy, simulation, and infrastructure. We move fast, ship to real robots, and open-source everything we can. If you want your work to matter beyond a paper or a demo, this is the place.

We are building the systems that let Asimov understand where it is and decide where to go. As a Robotics Researcher in Navigation, you will own the full stack from state estimation and mapping through global and local planning -- closing the loop between perception outputs and motion execution in dynamic, unstructured real-world environments. This is an applied research role. You will train and deploy in simulation (Uranus), validate on physical ...