Founding Research Engineer, Physical AI

Steadyworks is hiring a Founding Research Engineer, Physical AI to build AI training environments, evaluation infrastructure, and data-generation tools across mechanical engineering, CAD, simulation, robotics, and building design. The role works with Steadyworks’ research team and researchers at frontier AI labs to design real-world tasks and contribute to research directions and evaluation methodologies.

Responsibilities:

• Build realistic environments for pre-training, mid-training, and post-training in mechanical engineering, CAE, robotics, and building design
• Design challenging real-world tasks that measure and improve agent capabilities
• Develop scalable infrastructure for frontier model capability evaluation and data generation
• Build tooling that converts expert workflows into high-quality RL environments and training data
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners, contribute to research directions, publish and share new evaluation methodologies