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  • ML/AI Humanoid Robot Controls Engineer

    Minerva Humanoids is developing rugged humanoid robots to do the most dangerous jobs on the planet, where human life is truly at risk. Our Robot Learning team is responsible for training policies that learn a variety of whole-body directable skills, from locomotion to manipulation and climbing.

    About the Role

    As a full-time ML/AI Humanoid Robot Controls Engineer, you will be a core member of the Robot Learning team, responsible for bridging the gap between simulation and the physical world, ensuring our robots can operate across complex terrains and perform intricate tasks with reliability and precision. If it doesn’t work on the robot, it doesn’t work.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Policy Training: Design and train advanced RL policies for locomotion and whole-body control (WBC) across diverse scenarios and terrains.

    • Sim2Real: Determine the observations, actions, and model types that unlock maximum performance when deploying on real hardware.

    • Robust Control: Expand our system’s rock-solid tracking, time-determinism, and safety characteristics into a new set of whole body behaviors.

    • Engineering Leadership: Mentor junior engineers, conduct rigorous code reviews, and enforce best software practices to maintain a world-class research culture. What You'll Bring

    • Technical Expertise: Significant experience deploying whole-body control policies on real humanoid or legged hardware.

    • Framework Proficiency: Deep knowledge of Python, PyTorch, and RL frameworks like IsaacLab or RSL-RL.

    • Algorithmic Depth: Strong understanding of RL algorithms including PPO, SAC, and multi-task or hierarchical learning.

    • Simulation Skills: Proficiency in physics-based simulators such as Isaac Sim or MujoCo for high-parallelism training.

    • Ownership: A methodical approach to complex, long-horizon debugging and the initiative to solve problems independently.

    • Education: A PhD or MS in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field with a focus on robot learning or control.

    Compensation & Benefits

    We believe that those working on life-saving missions should share in the success of that mission.

    • Salary Range: $180,000 – $250,000 annual salary.

    • Equity

  • About Minerva
     We build Western-sovereign humanoid robots for the world's most demanding environments. Backed by General Catalyst, with teams in San Francisco, London, and Germany.

    About the Role
     Our engineers build the brains. You are an extension of the brains and also the hands. You take our humanoids out of the lab and put them to work in the field: desert heat, Arctic cold, onshore refineries, offshore steel. You own the robot from the moment the crate opens to the moment the job is done. When something breaks a thousand miles from HQ, you fix it. This role exists so our robots can be anywhere in the world, running, while the rest of the team keeps building.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Deploy our humanoids at sites, demos, and pilots worldwide: site surveys, transport, setup, operation, teardown

    • Own safety on site: risk assessments, exclusion zones, e-stops, tether and cable management around a moving humanoid

    • Run and monitor our full stack on real hardware, and patch what needs patching in the field

    • Triage hardware and software faults, swap components, get the robot back up fast

    • Collect logs, telemetry, and field data, and feed what you learn back to the R&D team

    • Maintain the field kit: spares, tools, calibration, flight cases

    • Represent Minerva face to face with the people whose sites we work on

    What you Bring

    • Hands-on experience with real robots: legged, mobile, manipulators, drones, or industrial systems

    • A safety-first instinct around powerful machines

    • Comfort with Linux, ROS 2, networking, and enough Python or C++ to read, run, and debug code under pressure

    • Solid electromechanical debugging skills, from multimeter to torque wrench

    • A well-rounded generalist profile: depth somewhere, working knowledge everywhere

    • Genuine excitement about living on the road and deploying robots all over the world

    • Calm hands when the robot misbehaves in front of an audience

    Nice to have

    • Experience on industrial, offshore, or other safety-critical sites

    • EtherCAT, networking skills (switch, IP, subnets, etc) and telecommunication skills

    • Teleoperation experience

    • Field service, flight test, or race engineering background

    • Willingness to complete site access certifications (offshore survival, HSE inductions)

    Compensation & Benefits

    We believe that those working on life-saving missions should share in the success of that mission.

    • Salary Range: $150,000 – $220,000 annual salary.

    • Equity

    Details
    Full time. Competitive salary and meaningful equity. Expect significant travel. Your office changes every week.

  • Software Engineer, Learning Infrastructure

    We build Western-sovereign humanoid robots for the world’s most demanding environments. Backed by General Catalyst, with teams in San Francisco, London, and Germany.

    Our robots combine high power, dense sensing, onboard compute, and high-bandwidth communications to tackle complex tasks in unstructured environments.

    About the role

    Training the best policy requires a tight feedback loop: automatically test it across different conditions, compare it with other candidates, understand why it succeeds or fails, reproduce exactly how it was trained and evaluated, and run the best candidates on real robots. The data from those deployments should then help us build the next generation of better policies.

    You will help build the infrastructure that makes this possible.

    You will get to build products from scratch, iterate quickly, and solve problems that do not yet have standard solutions. You will have substantial freedom to find simple, effective approaches and the ownership to turn them into systems used across the company.

    You will work with the latest robotics research and simulators, manage real GPU infrastructure, and collaborate directly with controls, machine-learning, and robotics engineers. Your work will directly affect how quickly we can improve what our robots are capable of doing.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Build systems for evaluating, comparing, and investigating robot policies

    • Make experiments and results reproducible from training through simulation and physical deployment

    • Build infrastructure for running policies on real robots and turning deployment data into useful feedback

    • Operate and improve our in-house GPU compute so researchers can train and evaluate policies efficiently

    • Improve the simulation, testing, and developer infrastructure that determines how quickly the team can iterate

    • Identify recurring bottlenecks and turn them into simple, reliable tools or systems

    The exact projects will evolve with the company. The goal will remain the same: find what is limiting our engineers and build the simplest system that meaningfully accelerates them.

    You might thrive in this role if you

    • Have strong software-engineering fundamentals

    • Enjoy finding simple solutions to complicated problems

    • Are comfortable working with Python and Linux

    • Can take an ambiguous problem from an initial idea to a useful working product

    • Learn quickly and are comfortable working across unfamiliar parts of the stack

    • Are highly independent, curious, and motivated by having a large impact

    • Want to understand how deep-learning policies behave when they leave simulation and control real machines.

    We are not credentials-driven. We care more about demonstrated ability, judgment, curiosity, and rate of improvement than a particular degree or number of years of experience.

    Nice to have

    • Experience with robotics, reinforcement learning, controls, or ML infrastructure

    • Backend systems, databases, APIs, or modern web development

    • GPU clusters, Slurm, containers, or distributed workloads

    • Isaac Sim, IsaacLab, MuJoCo, or other simulation systems

    • CI/CD, networking, observability, or developer tooling

    Compensation & Benefits

    We believe that those working on life-saving missions should share in the success of that mission.

    • Salary Range: $120,000 – $200,000 annual salary.

    • Equity

Germany

  • About the Role

    Minerva Humanoids is building humanoid robots for the most dangerous jobs on the planet. Offshore rigs, refineries, chemical units, safe bomb disposal, chemical and biohazardous substance decontamination and disposal: the work that sends humans into hazardous zones today is the work our robots do tomorrow.

    We are now building our German entity with two core objectives. Germany is where the hardware supply base, the certification bodies, and the test infrastructure sit. It is also the base from which we go to market across Europe and the Middle East, where our first customers, industrial partners, and public counterparts are.

    As Chief of Staff, you work directly alongside the Head of Germany on whatever matters most. You will not own one function. You will move across entity build-out, commercial pipeline, partnerships, government relations, hiring, and our next fundraise, and you will own real workstreams end to end from an early stage. This is the broadest role we will hire in Germany, and it is a fast route into a functional leadership track rather than a permanent support function.

    What You'll Do

    • Stand up the German entity from zero: finance, HR, legal, and facilities, including vendor selection and the operating processes everything else runs on.

    • Build our commercial pipeline across Europe and the Middle East: map the customer landscape, prepare pilot and deployment conversations, and put structure behind early opportunities.

    • Support our next fundraising round end to end, including data room, financial projections, market sizing, investor materials, and diligence follow-ups.

    • Support the relationships with our assembly and manufacturing partners and with the German industrial base, from preparation and analysis through to follow-through.

    • Help secure access to automotive OEM, aeronautics, and space test infrastructure, and support our certification work for hazardous environments (ATEX, IECEx).

    • Prepare and follow up on government engagements at state and federal level, covering public funding programs, procurement processes, and European defense innovation programs.

    • Build the hiring pipeline for the German team, run early-stage processes, and give every candidate a first-class experience.

    • Turn open questions into decisions: supplier landscapes, build-versus-buy analyses, and board material.

    What You'll Bring

    • Zero to five years of experience in consulting, investment banking, venture capital, or an operating role at a startup. Career changers welcome if the rest fits.

    • German at native or near-native level and fluent English. Most of our written work is in English, most of our German counterparts are not.

    • A strong analytical foundation: you can build a model, structure a market, and defend your assumptions.

    • Written clarity. A large part of this job is turning messy input into something a decision can be made on.

    • High autonomy. You will regularly be given a goal rather than a task, and you will come back with a proposal rather than a question.

    • Genuine interest in the industrial world. Factories, suppliers, test benches, certification bodies. No engineering background required.

    Nice to Have

    • Exposure to the automotive, aerospace, or industrial supply base in southern Germany.

    • Familiarity with German or European public funding programs.

    • Experience in a defense, dual-use, or otherwise regulated environment.

    • Something you have built yourself, technical or commercial.

  • About the Role

    Minerva Humanoids is expanding its hardware team to develop the next generation of reliable and robust humanoid robots to handle some of the most dangerous jobs on the planet. From offshore rigs, refineries, and chemical plants to bomb disposal and hazardous substance decontamination, the work that requires sending humans into hazardous environments today will be handled by our robots tomorrow.

    As the Head of Mechanical Hardware, you will work alongside other hardware leads to deliver future prototype iterations in line with Minerva’s long-term strategy - ultimately leading to a fully certified product. You will ensure that Minerva leverages the best available resources to design, build, certify, and manufacture. This will include growing the mechanical engineering team, engaging with technical partners and suppliers, and establishing in-house development and production facilities.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Lead the high-level mechanical strategy for the next-generation humanoid robots, including structural design architecture, material selection, actuator integration, manufacturing methodologies, make-vs-buy decisions, and the roadmap toward a reliable and scalable product.

    • Co-lead the strategy, planning, and implementation for product certification.

    • Grow and manage the mechanical engineering team.

    • Identify, select, and manage relationships with key suppliers and technical partners.

    • Engage directly in hands-on engineering design, prototyping, and testing as required.

    What you Bring

    • 10+ years of experience in the robotics industry or other related field.

    • Proven experience operating in a dynamic, fast-paced startup-like environment.

    • Deep understanding across different mechanical engineering disciplines - this should include structural mechanics, materials, manufacturing, dynamics, and kinematics.

    • Experience driving technology readiness progression across product frameworks (e.g., TRL, APQP, or similar).

    • Excellent communication skills with a track record of building and managing high-performing engineering teams.

    Compensation & Benefits

    We believe that those working on life-saving missions should share in the success of that mission.

    • Salary Range: €150,000 – €250,000 annual salary.

    • Equity

  • About the Role

    Minerva Humanoids is expanding its hardware team to develop the next generation of reliable and robust humanoid robots to handle some of the most dangerous jobs on the planet. From offshore rigs, refineries, and chemical plants to bomb disposal and hazardous substance decontamination, the work that requires sending humans into hazardous environments today will be handled by our robots tomorrow.

    As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will work alongside the hardware team to deliver prototype iterations in line with Minerva’s long-term strategy - ultimately leading to a fully certified product. You will be responsible for key areas of the robot electrical design, including architecture optimization, component selection, custom PCBs, harness and connectors, battery, and power distribution. As an early-stage hire, you will have the opportunity to advance rapidly alongside the company's growth.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Collaborate on the high-level electrical strategy for next-generation humanoid robots, including high level architecture, make-vs-buy decisions, and the roadmap toward a reliable, certified, and scalable product.

    • Lead electrical component selection and custom PCB design in accordance with functional, power, thermal, environmental, and safety requirements.

    • Collaborate on actuator selection and integration optimization focusing on power delivery and control.

    • Work with the mechanical team to optimize connector selection, harness design and routing.

    • Collaborate on sensor selection and integration.

    • Improve battery and power delivery system safety. 

    • Engage directly in hands-on prototyping, assembly, and testing.

    • Support field testing and customer demonstrations. Identify and implement improvements based on testing feedback.

    What you Bring

    • 5+ years of experience in the robotics industry or related fields such as aerospace or motorsport.

    • Proven experience operating in a dynamic, fast-paced startup-like environment.

    • Extensive experience with PCB design, prototyping and testing. Familiarity with switch-mode power circuits and high speed communication buses.

    • Deep understanding of electrical engineering disciplines, including power electronics, signal processing, motor control, RF, and EMI.

    • Experience with prototyping electrical assemblies and harnesses.

    • Excellent communication and engineering documentation skills.

    Compensation & Benefits

    We believe that those working on life-saving missions should share in the success of that mission.

    • Salary Range: €80,000 – €140,000 annual salary.

    • Equity

  • About the Role

    Minerva Humanoids is expanding its hardware team to develop the next generation of reliable and robust humanoid robots to handle some of the most dangerous jobs on the planet. From offshore rigs, refineries, and chemical plants to bomb disposal and hazardous substance decontamination, the work that requires sending humans into hazardous environments today will be handled by our robots tomorrow.

    As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will work alongside the hardware team to deliver prototype iterations in line with Minerva’s long-term strategy - ultimately leading to a fully certified product. You will be responsible for key areas of the robot mechanical design, including material selection, structural optimization, and the integration of actuators and transmissions. As an early-stage hire, you will have the opportunity to advance rapidly alongside the company's growth.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Collaborate on the high-level mechanical strategy for next-generation humanoid robots, including structural design architecture, make-vs-buy decisions, and the roadmap toward a reliable, certified, and scalable product.

    • Lead structural design and material selection in accordance with stiffness, weight, thermal, environmental, and safety requirements.

    • Collaborate on actuator and transmission selection and optimize their integration into the robot structure.

    • Work with the electronics team to optimize harness routing and protection.

    • Engage directly in hands-on prototyping, assembly, and testing.

    • Support field testing and customer demonstrations. Identify and implement improvements based on testing feedback.

    What you Bring

    • 5+ years of experience in the robotics industry or related fields such as aerospace or motorsport.

    • Proven experience operating in a dynamic, fast-paced startup-like environment.

    • Extensive experience with CAD, structural FEA, and design for specific manufacturing methods. Familiarity in designing highly stressed components and assemblies with moving parts and dynamic loads.

    • Deep understanding of mechanical engineering disciplines, including structural mechanics, materials (metal alloys, composites, engineering polymers), manufacturing, dynamics, and kinematics.

    • Excellent communication and engineering documentation skills.

    Compensation & Benefits

    We believe that those working on life-saving missions should share in the success of that mission.

    • Salary Range: €80,000 – €140,000 annual salary.

    • Equity

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