layiq

/la·yiq/adjective

worthy; deserving; fitting; suitable.

A role, opportunity, or path that merits attention, time, and pursuit.

LAYIQ - Staff Engineer - Robot Learning, Embodied AI at Niantic Spatial

Experience training, evaluating, and deploying robot policies in systems used by enterprise or government customers, with responsibility for performance in real operating conditions.
Deep practical experience using simulation for policy training or evaluation, including tools such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, or equivalent. You have diagnosed sim-to-real failures and understand when greater fidelity improves outcomes.
Hands-on experience with reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or both, and with deep-learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
A practical understanding of how visual perception and 3D scene representations affect robotics training, evaluation, and real-world performance.
Experience running experiments on real robots, from an ambiguous hypothesis through to defensible results.
Strong Python and C++ skills, with experience building reliable production software.
A bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
Nice to Have
You've authored or maintained a public robotics benchmark.
You've helped take an early product to repeatable adoption across multiple customers.
You've built or substantially extended robotics simulation infrastructure, including scene authoring, domain randomization, or large-scale training and evaluation.
You've trained and deployed vision-based navigation or mobility policies, particularly in varied, unstructured environments.
You've built pipelines that turn real-world reconstructions into simulation-ready environments.
Competencies
Always Learning.
Staying on top of the latest academic breakthroughs and commercial advancements, particularly in real-to-sim-to-real.
Relentless bias for action.
You make decisions and ship as if the company’s success depends on it, because it does. You set the pace, and drive the people around you to rise to it.
Intellectually honest.
You know there’s just one job that underpins every other in a startup: find the truth. You are relentless in your pursuit of it, including when it challenges your own convictions, and you raise concerns when you see them — even when it's uncomfortable, and especially when it's unpopular.
Pragmatic.
You have no patience for not-invented-here syndrome and analysis paralysis. You find the fastest path to delivering customer value without going through one-way doors that undermine future scaling.
Confident and credible with customers.
You can sit alongside an autonomy engineer and help them get to the root of their problems. You are comfortable speaking to customers and bring commercial nous to those discussions.

Staff Engineer - Robot Learning, Embodied AI

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