Forward Deployed Research Engineer

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.

The hard problem in robotics is not building a compelling prototype. It is making robotic systems deployable, repeatable, and economically useful in the real world. The Forward Deployed Research Engineer is a new kind of role at Menlo. It combines the strengths of a Forward Deployed Engineer and a Research Engineer. You will work directly on real customer problems, but you will not stop at integration or customization. You will use deployment pre...