{"jobs":[{"id":"0b5a203e-07be-4607-ac1d-7b914f056508","title":"Member of Technical Staff - Product Engineer","department":"Engineering & Research","team":"Engineering & Research","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco, CA","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-09-26T22:38:42.189+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":null,"workplaceType":null,"address":{"postalAddress":{}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/moonlake/0b5a203e-07be-4607-ac1d-7b914f056508","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/moonlake/0b5a203e-07be-4607-ac1d-7b914f056508/application","descriptionHtml":"<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Introducing Moonlake, AI for creating world simulations.</p><h2>About Moonlake</h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Moonlake is building the frontier of interactive world models: systems that generate, simulate, and reason over 3D environments for embodied AI, robotics, and gaming. We develop the simulation infrastructure to build worlds—including assets, scenes, and digital twins—at scale.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Our work sits at the intersection of:</p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Embodied AI</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Robotics Simulation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Interactive 3D Worlds</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">World Models</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Real-Time Generation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">AI Infrastructure</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Moonlake is building the next generation of AI infrastructure for interactive digital worlds. Our mission is to enable anyone to create, simulate, and interact with rich environments using natural language and multimodal inputs—turning simple ideas into worlds with structure, logic, and agents that can perceive and act.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Our team has raised <strong>$28M in seed funding</strong> from <strong>NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures</strong>, and notable angels including <strong>Naval Ravikant</strong> and <strong>Jeff Dean</strong> to build the foundational layer for the future of AI—powering everything from creative tools and games to robotics training, simulations, and digital twins. Our goal is to make building and experimenting with these environments as accessible and scalable as publishing video on the internet.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We are looking for exceptional research engineers and applied researchers to help push the frontier of interactive AI.<br /></p><h2>The Role</h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We're looking for a <strong>Product Engineer</strong> who combines strong full-stack engineering with sharp product judgment and a bias for shipping.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We want someone who can:</p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own a product surface end-to-end—not a ticket queue</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Turn a rough idea into a shipped, measured feature</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build full-stack, front to back (React / Next.js / TypeScript + Python)</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Make product decisions without waiting for a PM</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Ship fast and iterate on real usage</p></li></ul><h2>Why This Role Matters</h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Moonlake is building products that sit at the intersection of AI systems and human creativity, simulation and interaction, and research infrastructure and product experience.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">The interface layer is critical. As AI systems become increasingly capable, the challenge is no longer just building better models—it's making those capabilities intuitive, responsive, and effortless to use.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You'll help define how researchers, developers, and creators interact with the next generation of world-building and embodied AI tools.<br /></p><h2>What You'll Do</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Scope fuzzy product goals into testable, instrumented features, and measure their impact.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Break down ambiguous work, sequence it, and drive it to production.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Collaborate closely with research, engineering, and founders building world models and embodied AI systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Use AI-native engineering tools (Claude Code, Codex, or similar) to ship faster.<br /></p></li></ul><h2>What We're Looking For</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">A track record of shipping real product in ambiguous, fast-moving environments—you turn ambiguity into outcomes.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">~3+ years building and shipping production web products (we index on track record over years).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong full-stack engineering experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript, combined with solid backend engineering judgment. You design sound database schemas and system architecture and understand the tradeoffs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong technical communication—you turn ambiguity into clear plans, explain tradeoffs to non-engineers, communicate with high signal, and proactively drive alignment.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Sound product and UX judgment—you know what's worth building.</p></li></ul><h2>Technical Experience We Value</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn, and modern web application architecture.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Building product features and UI/UX for agentic systems—where AI takes actions, reasons over state, and drives multi-step, long-horizon workflows with streaming and generative interfaces.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Building scalable backend services and APIs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">AI-native product workflows.<br /></p></li></ul><h2>Bonus Points</h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience in any of the following is a plus, but not required:</p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Extensive experience building and shipping agent- or LLM-powered product features.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Founding engineer or 0→1 startup experience.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Physics AI, simulation, or robotics stacks such as Isaac Sim or MuJoCo.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">3D asset workflows (Blender) or other world-building and asset creation tools.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We are committed to being an on-site, in-person team currently based in San Francisco.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p>","descriptionPlain":"Introducing Moonlake, AI for creating world simulations.\n\n\nABOUT MOONLAKE\n\nMoonlake is building the frontier of interactive world models: systems that generate, simulate, and reason over 3D environments for embodied AI, robotics, and gaming. We develop the simulation infrastructure to build worlds—including assets, scenes, and digital twins—at scale.\n\nOur work sits at the intersection of:\n\n - Embodied AI\n\n - Robotics Simulation\n\n - Interactive 3D Worlds\n\n - World Models\n\n - Real-Time Generation\n\n - AI Infrastructure\n\nMoonlake is building the next generation of AI infrastructure for interactive digital worlds. Our mission is to enable anyone to create, simulate, and interact with rich environments using natural language and multimodal inputs—turning simple ideas into worlds with structure, logic, and agents that can perceive and act.\n\nOur team has raised $28M in seed funding from NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and notable angels including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Dean to build the foundational layer for the future of AI—powering everything from creative tools and games to robotics training, simulations, and digital twins. Our goal is to make building and experimenting with these environments as accessible and scalable as publishing video on the internet.\n\nWe are looking for exceptional research engineers and applied researchers to help push the frontier of interactive AI.\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nWe're looking for a Product Engineer who combines strong full-stack engineering with sharp product judgment and a bias for shipping.\n\nWe want someone who can:\n\n - Own a product surface end-to-end—not a ticket queue\n\n - Turn a rough idea into a shipped, measured feature\n\n - Build full-stack, front to back (React / Next.js / TypeScript + Python)\n\n - Make product decisions without waiting for a PM\n\n - Ship fast and iterate on real usage\n\n\nWHY THIS ROLE MATTERS\n\nMoonlake is building products that sit at the intersection of AI systems and human creativity, simulation and interaction, and research infrastructure and product experience.\n\nThe interface layer is critical. As AI systems become increasingly capable, the challenge is no longer just building better models—it's making those capabilities intuitive, responsive, and effortless to use.\n\nYou'll help define how researchers, developers, and creators interact with the next generation of world-building and embodied AI tools.\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Scope fuzzy product goals into testable, instrumented features, and measure their impact.\n\n - Break down ambiguous work, sequence it, and drive it to production.\n\n - Collaborate closely with research, engineering, and founders building world models and embodied AI systems.\n\n - Use AI-native engineering tools (Claude Code, Codex, or similar) to ship faster.\n   \n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - A track record of shipping real product in ambiguous, fast-moving environments—you turn ambiguity into outcomes.\n\n - ~3+ years building and shipping production web products (we index on track record over years).\n\n - Strong full-stack engineering experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript, combined with solid backend engineering judgment. You design sound database schemas and system architecture and understand the tradeoffs.\n\n - Strong technical communication—you turn ambiguity into clear plans, explain tradeoffs to non-engineers, communicate with high signal, and proactively drive alignment.\n\n - Sound product and UX judgment—you know what's worth building.\n\n\nTECHNICAL EXPERIENCE WE VALUE\n\n - React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn, and modern web application architecture.\n\n - Building product features and UI/UX for agentic systems—where AI takes actions, reasons over state, and drives multi-step, long-horizon workflows with streaming and generative interfaces.\n\n - Building scalable backend services and APIs.\n\n - AI-native product workflows.\n   \n\n\nBONUS POINTS\n\nExperience in any of the following is a plus, but not required:\n\n - Extensive experience building and shipping agent- or LLM-powered product features.\n\n - Founding engineer or 0→1 startup experience.\n\n - Physics AI, simulation, or robotics stacks such as Isaac Sim or MuJoCo.\n\n - 3D asset workflows (Blender) or other world-building and asset creation tools.\n\n\n\nWe are committed to being an on-site, in-person team currently based in San Francisco.\n\n"},{"id":"78e20936-77eb-4f2e-ae17-053b5808341c","title":"Member of Technical Staff -  Simulation Engineer","department":"Engineering & Research","team":"Engineering & Research","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco, CA","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-09-27T20:36:26.440+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/moonlake/78e20936-77eb-4f2e-ae17-053b5808341c","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/moonlake/78e20936-77eb-4f2e-ae17-053b5808341c/application","descriptionHtml":"<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Introducing Moonlake, AI for creating world simulations.</p><h2>About Moonlake</h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Moonlake is building the frontier of interactive world models: systems that generate, simulate, and reason over 3D environments for robotics, embodied AI, and interactive applications.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We develop the infrastructure that enables intelligent systems to learn, evaluate, and interact within realistic virtual environments before operating in the physical world.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Our work sits at the intersection of:</p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Robotics</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Embodied AI</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Interactive 3D Worlds</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">World Models</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Simulation Infrastructure</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Physical AI</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Moonlake is building the next generation of AI infrastructure for interactive digital worlds. Our mission is to enable anyone to create, simulate, and interact with rich environments using natural language and multimodal inputs, turning simple ideas into worlds with structure, physics, and intelligent behavior.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Our team has raised $28M in seed funding from NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and notable angels including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Dean to build the foundational layer for the future of AI—powering everything from robotics training and simulation to digital twins and interactive environments.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We are looking for exceptional engineers to help build the simulation systems that will power the next generation of robotics and embodied intelligence.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h1>The Role</h1><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We're looking for a <strong>Member of Technical Staff – Simulation Engineer</strong> to build the simulation systems and infrastructure that power robotics and embodied AI.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">This role focuses on developing high-fidelity simulation environments that accurately model robot behavior, sensors, physics, and real-world interactions. You'll build the simulation infrastructure used for robot learning, evaluation, synthetic data generation, and sim-to-real transfer.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You'll collaborate closely with teams working on robotics, world models, AI systems, and simulation infrastructure.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">This is a highly hands-on software engineering role for builders who enjoy solving challenging problems across robotics, simulation, physics, and distributed systems.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h1>What You'll Do</h1><h2>Build Robotics Simulation Systems</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design and develop simulation environments for robotics training and evaluation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build simulation systems supporting perception, navigation, manipulation, and embodied AI tasks</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop scalable simulation workflows that enable rapid experimentation and robot 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style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Create simulation benchmarks for evaluating robotics models</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Optimize simulation environments for machine learning workflows</p></li></ul><h2>Build Simulation Infrastructure</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop production-quality software supporting simulation systems</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build tools that improve simulation reliability, testing, and scalability</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Improve pipelines for simulation creation, execution, and evaluation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Optimize simulation performance while maintaining physical realism</p></li></ul><h1>Areas of Focus</h1><h2>Robotics Simulation</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Physics simulation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Robot dynamics</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Sensor simulation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Sim-to-real transfer</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Robot learning environments</p></li></ul><h2>Simulation Infrastructure</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Synthetic data generation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Simulation tooling</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Environment automation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Performance optimization</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Benchmarking and validation</p></li></ul><h2>Robotics</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Perception</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Manipulation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Navigation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Embodied AI</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Physical reasoning</p></li></ul><h1>What We're Looking For</h1><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience building robotics simulation systems for robotics, autonomy, embodied AI, or physical AI</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with robotics simulators such as <strong>Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, PyBullet, Gazebo, Drake, or equivalent</strong></p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Understanding of robot dynamics, physics simulation, sensor modeling, and sim-to-real transfer</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong software engineering skills in Python, C++, or similar languages</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience building production-quality simulation software and infrastructure</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience writing reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong systems thinking and problem-solving skills</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Ability to work closely with robotics, machine learning, and research teams</p></li></ul><h1>Nice to Have</h1><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim or Omniverse</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience generating synthetic data for robotics or machine learning</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with domain randomization or procedural environment generation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with ROS2 and modern robotics software stacks</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience optimizing simulation performance or GPU-accelerated simulation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field</p></li></ul><h1>Why This Role Matters</h1><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Moonlake's vision depends on simulation systems that allow intelligent agents to learn, evaluate, and improve before operating in the physical world.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">The quality of our world models, robotics systems, and AI infrastructure depends on simulation environments that are physically accurate, computationally efficient, and scalable.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">As a Simulation Engineer, you'll build the core simulation infrastructure that powers the next generation of robotics and embodied AI.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We are committed to being an on-site, in-person team currently based in San Francisco.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p>","descriptionPlain":"Introducing Moonlake, AI for creating world simulations.\n\n\nABOUT MOONLAKE\n\nMoonlake is building the frontier of interactive world models: systems that generate, simulate, and reason over 3D environments for robotics, embodied AI, and interactive applications.\n\nWe develop the infrastructure that enables intelligent systems to learn, evaluate, and interact within realistic virtual environments before operating in the physical world.\n\nOur work sits at the intersection of:\n\n - Robotics\n\n - Embodied AI\n\n - Interactive 3D Worlds\n\n - World Models\n\n - Simulation Infrastructure\n\n - Physical AI\n\nMoonlake is building the next generation of AI infrastructure for interactive digital worlds. Our mission is to enable anyone to create, simulate, and interact with rich environments using natural language and multimodal inputs, turning simple ideas into worlds with structure, physics, and intelligent behavior.\n\nOur team has raised $28M in seed funding from NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and notable angels including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Dean to build the foundational layer for the future of AI—powering everything from robotics training and simulation to digital twins and interactive environments.\n\nWe are looking for exceptional engineers to help build the simulation systems that will power the next generation of robotics and embodied intelligence.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nWe're looking for a Member of Technical Staff – Simulation Engineer to build the simulation systems and infrastructure that power robotics and embodied AI.\n\nThis role focuses on developing high-fidelity simulation environments that accurately model robot behavior, sensors, physics, and real-world interactions. You'll build the simulation infrastructure used for robot learning, evaluation, synthetic data generation, and sim-to-real transfer.\n\nYou'll collaborate closely with teams working on robotics, world models, AI systems, and simulation infrastructure.\n\nThis is a highly hands-on software engineering role for builders who enjoy solving challenging problems across robotics, simulation, physics, and distributed systems.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n\nBUILD ROBOTICS SIMULATION SYSTEMS\n\n - Design and develop simulation environments for robotics training and evaluation\n\n - Build simulation systems supporting perception, navigation, manipulation, and embodied AI tasks\n\n - Develop scalable simulation workflows that enable rapid experimentation and robot learning\n\n - Build reusable tooling that makes simulation development efficient and reliable\n\n\nIMPROVE SIM-TO-REAL TRANSFER\n\n - Compare simulation outputs against real-world robot behavior\n\n - Model robot dynamics, sensors, contacts, and environmental interactions\n\n - Tune simulation fidelity through calibration and validation\n\n - Improve policy transfer using calibration, benchmarking, and domain randomization techniques\n\n\nSUPPORT ROBOT LEARNING\n\n - Partner with robotics and AI teams to build environments for training and evaluating intelligent systems\n\n - Develop infrastructure supporting large-scale synthetic data generation\n\n - Create simulation benchmarks for evaluating robotics models\n\n - Optimize simulation environments for machine learning workflows\n\n\nBUILD SIMULATION INFRASTRUCTURE\n\n - Develop production-quality software supporting simulation systems\n\n - Build tools that improve simulation reliability, testing, and scalability\n\n - Improve pipelines for simulation creation, execution, and evaluation\n\n - Optimize simulation performance while maintaining physical realism\n\n\nAREAS OF FOCUS\n\n\nROBOTICS SIMULATION\n\n - Physics simulation\n\n - Robot dynamics\n\n - Sensor simulation\n\n - Sim-to-real transfer\n\n - Robot learning environments\n\n\nSIMULATION INFRASTRUCTURE\n\n - Synthetic data generation\n\n - Simulation tooling\n\n - Environment automation\n\n - Performance optimization\n\n - Benchmarking and validation\n\n\nROBOTICS\n\n - Perception\n\n - Manipulation\n\n - Navigation\n\n - Embodied AI\n\n - Physical reasoning\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - Experience building robotics simulation systems for robotics, autonomy, embodied AI, or physical AI\n\n - Experience with robotics simulators such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, PyBullet, Gazebo, Drake, or equivalent\n\n - Understanding of robot dynamics, physics simulation, sensor modeling, and sim-to-real transfer\n\n - Strong software engineering skills in Python, C++, or similar languages\n\n - Experience building production-quality simulation software and infrastructure\n\n - Experience writing reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code\n\n - Strong systems thinking and problem-solving skills\n\n - Ability to work closely with robotics, machine learning, and research teams\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim or Omniverse\n\n - 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Our platform enables the creation of digital worlds, synthetic environments, and scalable simulation infrastructure used to train the next generation of intelligent systems.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Our work sits at the intersection of:</p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Robotics</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Physical AI</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">World Models</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Simulation Infrastructure</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Synthetic Data Generation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Embodied Intelligence</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Moonlake has raised $28M in seed funding from NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and notable angels including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Dean.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Our mission is to build the foundational infrastructure that enables robots to learn, reason, and operate effectively in the physical world.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h1>The Role</h1><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We are looking for a <strong>Member of Technical Staff – Robotics</strong> to help build the bridge between simulation, world models, and real-world robotic systems.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">This role spans the full robotics stack—from evaluating foundation models and policies in simulation, to training world models, to deploying and operating physical robots. You will work closely with researchers and engineers developing next-generation simulation environments and AI systems, while ensuring those capabilities transfer successfully into real-world robotic platforms.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">This is a highly hands-on role combining robotics engineering, machine learning, simulation, and hardware deployment.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h1>What You'll Do</h1><h3>Evaluate Robot Foundation Models &amp; Policies</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Benchmark and evaluate robot foundation models in simulated environments</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design evaluation frameworks for robotic reasoning, planning, manipulation, and navigation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Measure generalization, robustness, and task performance across diverse scenarios</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build infrastructure for large-scale simulation-based testing and validation</p></li></ul><h3>Train World Models for Robotics</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop and train world models that enable robots to understand and predict environment dynamics</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build systems that learn from multimodal robot data including vision, depth, state, and actions</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Improve environment understanding, forecasting, and decision-making capabilities</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Work closely with simulation and AI teams to advance robotic world modeling systems</p></li></ul><h3>Build Real-World Robot Learning Pipelines</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Collect and curate real-world robotics datasets</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Train and fine-tune models using both simulated and physical robot data</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Improve sim-to-real transfer for robotic policies and world models</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop workflows connecting simulation, training infrastructure, and deployed robotic systems</p></li></ul><h3>Deploy and Operate Physical Robots</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Set up, integrate, and maintain robotic hardware platforms</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Bring learned policies and world models onto real robotic systems</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Debug hardware, software, sensing, and control issues</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop deployment pipelines for testing, validation, and continuous improvement</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Work directly with robotic manipulators, mobile robots, sensors, and compute systems</p></li></ul><h1>Areas of Focus</h1><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h2>Robot Foundation Models</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Policy evaluation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Model benchmarking</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Simulation-based testing</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Generalization analysis</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Performance measurement</p></li></ul><h2>World Models</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Environment modeling</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Predictive systems</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Representation learning</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Multimodal learning</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Model-based reasoning</p></li></ul><h2>Simulation</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Robotics simulators</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Digital twins</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Synthetic environments</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Sim-to-real transfer</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Evaluation infrastructure</p></li></ul><h2>Robotics Systems</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Robot setup and integration</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Sensors and perception systems</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Robot control</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hardware debugging</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deployment workflows</p></li></ul><h1>What We're Looking For</h1><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong background in robotics, embodied AI, machine learning, or related fields</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience working with physical robotic systems</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with robotic simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Habitat, Gazebo, or similar</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with robot learning, foundation models, or world models</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong software engineering skills in Python and robotics tooling</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience deploying software onto real robotic hardware</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Ability to debug across hardware, software, and machine learning systems</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Comfort working in a fast-moving research and engineering environment</p></li></ul><h1>Why This Role Matters</h1><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Moonlake's vision extends beyond simulation. We believe the future of robotics will be powered by world models that can learn in simulation and transfer seamlessly to the physical world.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">This role sits at the center of that mission. You will help evaluate robotic intelligence in simulation, train the models that power robotic understanding, and deploy those systems onto real robots operating in the physical world.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Your work will directly shape how future robotic systems learn, reason, and act.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We are committed to being an on-site, in-person team currently based in San Francisco.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p>","descriptionPlain":"Introducing Moonlake, AI for creating world simulations.\n\n\nABOUT MOONLAKE\n\nMoonlake is building the frontier of AI-powered world simulation.\n\nWe create systems that generate, simulate, and reason over rich 3D environments for robotics, embodied AI, and interactive applications. Our platform enables the creation of digital worlds, synthetic environments, and scalable simulation infrastructure used to train the next generation of intelligent systems.\n\nOur work sits at the intersection of:\n\n - Robotics\n\n - Physical AI\n\n - World Models\n\n - Simulation Infrastructure\n\n - Synthetic Data Generation\n\n - Embodied Intelligence\n\nMoonlake has raised $28M in seed funding from NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and notable angels including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Dean.\n\nOur mission is to build the foundational infrastructure that enables robots to learn, reason, and operate effectively in the physical world.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nWe are looking for a Member of Technical Staff – Robotics to help build the bridge between simulation, world models, and real-world robotic systems.\n\nThis role spans the full robotics stack—from evaluating foundation models and policies in simulation, to training world models, to deploying and operating physical robots. You will work closely with researchers and engineers developing next-generation simulation environments and AI systems, while ensuring those capabilities transfer successfully into real-world robotic platforms.\n\nThis is a highly hands-on role combining robotics engineering, machine learning, simulation, and hardware deployment.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n\nEVALUATE ROBOT FOUNDATION MODELS & POLICIES\n\n - Benchmark and evaluate robot foundation models in simulated environments\n\n - Design evaluation frameworks for robotic reasoning, planning, manipulation, and navigation\n\n - Measure generalization, robustness, and task performance across diverse scenarios\n\n - Build infrastructure for large-scale simulation-based testing and validation\n\n\nTRAIN WORLD MODELS FOR ROBOTICS\n\n - Develop and train world models that enable robots to understand and predict environment dynamics\n\n - Build systems that learn from multimodal robot data including vision, depth, state, and actions\n\n - Improve environment understanding, forecasting, and decision-making capabilities\n\n - Work closely with simulation and AI teams to advance robotic world modeling systems\n\n\nBUILD REAL-WORLD ROBOT LEARNING PIPELINES\n\n - Collect and curate real-world robotics datasets\n\n - Train and fine-tune models using both simulated and physical robot data\n\n - Improve sim-to-real transfer for robotic policies and world models\n\n - Develop workflows connecting simulation, training infrastructure, and deployed robotic systems\n\n\nDEPLOY AND OPERATE PHYSICAL ROBOTS\n\n - Set up, integrate, and maintain robotic hardware platforms\n\n - Bring learned policies and world models onto real robotic systems\n\n - Debug hardware, software, sensing, and control issues\n\n - Develop deployment pipelines for testing, validation, and continuous improvement\n\n - Work directly with robotic manipulators, mobile robots, sensors, and compute systems\n\n\nAREAS OF FOCUS\n\n\n\n\nROBOT FOUNDATION MODELS\n\n - Policy evaluation\n\n - Model benchmarking\n\n - Simulation-based testing\n\n - Generalization analysis\n\n - Performance measurement\n\n\nWORLD MODELS\n\n - Environment modeling\n\n - Predictive systems\n\n - Representation learning\n\n - Multimodal learning\n\n - Model-based reasoning\n\n\nSIMULATION\n\n - Robotics simulators\n\n - Digital twins\n\n - Synthetic environments\n\n - Sim-to-real transfer\n\n - Evaluation infrastructure\n\n\nROBOTICS SYSTEMS\n\n - Robot setup and integration\n\n - Sensors and perception systems\n\n - Robot control\n\n - Hardware debugging\n\n - Deployment workflows\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - Strong background in robotics, embodied AI, machine learning, or related fields\n\n - Experience working with physical robotic systems\n\n - Experience with robotic simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Habitat, Gazebo, or similar\n\n - Familiarity with robot learning, foundation models, or world models\n\n - Strong software engineering skills in Python and robotics tooling\n\n - Experience deploying software onto real robotic hardware\n\n - Ability to debug across hardware, software, and machine learning systems\n\n - Comfort working in a fast-moving research and engineering environment\n\n\nWHY THIS ROLE MATTERS\n\nMoonlake's vision extends beyond simulation. We believe the future of robotics will be powered by world models that can learn in simulation and transfer seamlessly to the physical world.\n\nThis role sits at the center of that mission. You will help evaluate robotic intelligence in simulation, train the models that power robotic understanding, and deploy those systems onto real robots operating in the physical world.\n\nYour work will directly shape how future robotic systems learn, reason, and act.\n\n\n\nWe are committed to being an on-site, in-person team currently based in San Francisco.\n\n"},{"id":"bb79f4f6-16d6-4001-849f-09ab73b21b76","title":"Head of People Operations","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco, CA","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-11T01:32:55.213+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":null,"workplaceType":null,"address":{"postalAddress":{}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/moonlake/bb79f4f6-16d6-4001-849f-09ab73b21b76","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/moonlake/bb79f4f6-16d6-4001-849f-09ab73b21b76/application","descriptionHtml":"<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Introducing Moonlake, AI for creating world simulations.</p><h2><strong>About Moonlake</strong></h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Moonlake is building the frontier of interactive world models: systems that generate, simulate, and reason over 3D environments for embodied AI, robotics and gaming. We develop the simulation infrastructure to build worlds (e.g., assets, scenes, digital twins) at scale.<br /><br />Our team sits at the intersection of:</p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Embodied AI</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Robotics simulation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Interactive 3D worlds</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">World models</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Real-time generation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">AI infrastructure</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Moonlake is building the next generation of AI infrastructure for interactive digital worlds. Our mission is to enable anyone to create, simulate, and interact with rich environments using natural language and multimodal inputs, turning simple ideas into worlds with structure, logic, and agents that can perceive and act.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Our team has raised $28M in seed funding from NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX ventures and notable angels including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Dean to build the foundational layer for the future of AI - powering everything from creative tools and games to robotics training, simulations, and digital twins. Our goal is to make building and experimenting with these environments as accessible and scalable as publishing video on the internet.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We are looking for exceptional research engineers and applied researchers to help push the frontier of interactive AI.<br /></p><h2>The Role</h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We’re looking for a <strong>Head of People Operations</strong> to support the company’s day-to-day people and administrative operations.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">This role is intentionally designed as a highly execution-oriented operational position focused on:</p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Coordination</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Administrative support</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Recruiting operations</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Scheduling</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">HR process support</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Internal organization</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We’re looking for someone highly reliable, organized, responsive, and detail-oriented who enjoys helping teams operate smoothly in a fast-paced startup environment.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, communicates clearly, and is comfortable handling a wide range of operational tasks across the organization.<br /></p><h2>What You’ll Do</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Coordinate interviews, scheduling, and recruiting logistics</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Support onboarding and employee administrative processes</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Help manage recruiting operations and candidate coordination</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Organize internal documentation and operational workflows</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Assist with calendar management and meeting coordination</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Support day-to-day HR and people operations tasks</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Maintain operational systems and internal process hygiene</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Help improve organizational efficiency across teams</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Work closely with leadership on administrative and operational support needs</p></li></ul><h3>Areas of Responsibility</h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Recruiting Operations</p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Interview scheduling</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Candidate coordination</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Recruiting process tracking</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">ATS support and data hygiene</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Candidate communication</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">People Operations</p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Onboarding coordination</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Internal documentation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">HR process support</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Team coordination</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Employee administrative support</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Administrative Support</p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Calendar management</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Meeting logistics</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Internal coordination</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Process organization</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Cross-functional operational support<br /></p></li></ul><h2>What We’re Looking For</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong organizational and operational skills</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Exceptional attention to detail</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Clear written and verbal communication</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">High responsiveness and reliability</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Ability to manage multiple workflows simultaneously</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Comfort working in fast-paced startup environments</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong execution mindset</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Ability to operate independently with minimal oversight<br /></p></li></ul><h2>Why This Role Matters</h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Moonlake operates in a highly fast-moving research and engineering environment where speed and organization matter deeply.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">This role helps ensure:</p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hiring processes move efficiently</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Teams stay coordinated</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Operations remain organized</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Leadership can stay focused on execution and product development</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You’ll help create the operational foundation that supports Moonlake’s continued growth.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We are committed to being an on-site, in-person team currently based in San Francisco.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p>","descriptionPlain":"Introducing Moonlake, AI for creating world simulations.\n\n\nABOUT MOONLAKE\n\nMoonlake is building the frontier of interactive world models: systems that generate, simulate, and reason over 3D environments for embodied AI, robotics and gaming. We develop the simulation infrastructure to build worlds (e.g., assets, scenes, digital twins) at scale.\n\nOur team sits at the intersection of:\n\n - Embodied AI\n\n - Robotics simulation\n\n - Interactive 3D worlds\n\n - World models\n\n - Real-time generation\n\n - AI infrastructure\n\nMoonlake is building the next generation of AI infrastructure for interactive digital worlds. Our mission is to enable anyone to create, simulate, and interact with rich environments using natural language and multimodal inputs, turning simple ideas into worlds with structure, logic, and agents that can perceive and act.\n\nOur team has raised $28M in seed funding from NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX ventures and notable angels including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Dean to build the foundational layer for the future of AI - powering everything from creative tools and games to robotics training, simulations, and digital twins. Our goal is to make building and experimenting with these environments as accessible and scalable as publishing video on the internet.\n\nWe are looking for exceptional research engineers and applied researchers to help push the frontier of interactive AI.\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nWe’re looking for a Head of People Operations to support the company’s day-to-day people and administrative operations.\n\nThis role is intentionally designed as a highly execution-oriented operational position focused on:\n\n - Coordination\n\n - Administrative support\n\n - Recruiting operations\n\n - Scheduling\n\n - HR process support\n\n - Internal organization\n\nWe’re looking for someone highly reliable, organized, responsive, and detail-oriented who enjoys helping teams operate smoothly in a fast-paced startup environment.\n\nThe ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, communicates clearly, and is comfortable handling a wide range of operational tasks across the organization.\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\n - Coordinate interviews, scheduling, and recruiting logistics\n\n - Support onboarding and employee administrative processes\n\n - Help manage recruiting operations and candidate coordination\n\n - Organize internal documentation and operational workflows\n\n - Assist with calendar management and meeting coordination\n\n - Support day-to-day HR and people operations tasks\n\n - Maintain operational systems and internal process hygiene\n\n - Help improve organizational efficiency across teams\n\n - Work closely with leadership on administrative and operational support needs\n\n\nAREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY\n\nRecruiting Operations\n\n - Interview scheduling\n\n - Candidate coordination\n\n - Recruiting process tracking\n\n - ATS support and data hygiene\n\n - Candidate communication\n\nPeople Operations\n\n - Onboarding coordination\n\n - Internal documentation\n\n - HR process support\n\n - Team coordination\n\n - Employee administrative support\n\nAdministrative Support\n\n - Calendar management\n\n - Meeting logistics\n\n - Internal coordination\n\n - Process organization\n\n - Cross-functional operational support\n   \n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - Strong organizational and operational skills\n\n - Exceptional attention to detail\n\n - Clear written and verbal communication\n\n - High responsiveness and reliability\n\n - Ability to manage multiple workflows simultaneously\n\n - Comfort working in fast-paced startup environments\n\n - Strong execution mindset\n\n - Ability to operate independently with minimal oversight\n   \n\n\nWHY THIS ROLE MATTERS\n\nMoonlake operates in a highly fast-moving research and engineering environment where speed and organization matter deeply.\n\nThis role helps ensure:\n\n - Hiring processes move efficiently\n\n - Teams stay coordinated\n\n - Operations remain organized\n\n - Leadership can stay focused on execution and product development\n\nYou’ll help create the operational foundation that supports Moonlake’s continued growth.\n\n\n\nWe are committed to being an on-site, in-person team currently based in San Francisco.\n\n"},{"id":"b4da5336-47fa-474a-808c-9c528ac75f15","title":"Member of Technical Staff — RL & Agentic Model Training","department":"Engineering & Research","team":"Engineering & Research","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco, CA","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-21T18:06:08.277+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":null,"workplaceType":null,"address":{"postalAddress":{}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/moonlake/b4da5336-47fa-474a-808c-9c528ac75f15","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/moonlake/b4da5336-47fa-474a-808c-9c528ac75f15/application","descriptionHtml":"<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Introducing Moonlake, AI for creating world simulations.</p><h2><strong>About Moonlake</strong></h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Moonlake is building the frontier of interactive world models: systems that generate, simulate, and reason over 3D environments for embodied AI, robotics and gaming. We develop the simulation infrastructure to build worlds (e.g., assets, scenes, digital twins) at scale.<br /><br />Our team sits at the intersection of:</p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Embodied AI</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Robotics simulation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Interactive 3D worlds</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">World models</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Real-time generation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">AI infrastructure</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Moonlake is building the next generation of AI infrastructure for interactive digital worlds. 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