Engineer (Physical AI) at Renesas Electronics — NeverHard

Job Description Ottawa, Canada - Hybrid We are seeking an entry level Engineer (Physical AI) to join the Pathfinding Studio within the Engineering Innovation Office. In this role, you will research and develop next generation physical AI dataflow algorithms, architectures, and virtual system models for humanoid robotics contributing to pathfinding research. You will work across perception, planning, control, and learning to enable intelligent humanoid behaviors, with particular emphasis on hand and arm manipulation. Responsibilities : Research, design, develop, and maintain end-to-end physical AI dataflows for humanoid robotics, connecting simulation, data generation, model training, evaluation, and deployment. Develop, deploy and evaluate algorithms and models for humanoid perception, motion planning, manipulation, and learning. Build humanoid simulations using MuJoCo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, or comparable tools, including models of articulated hands, arms, sensors, and environments. Create and curate simulation and real-world datasets; define interfaces, schemas, synchronization methods, and quality checks for multimodal robotics data. Develop domain-randomization, synthetic-data, imitation-learning, reinforcement-learning, sim-to-real and real-to-sim workflows. Analyze model and controller behavior, establish performance metrics, identify failure modes, and document results. Collaborate with software, AI, robotics, and hardware teams to translate research concepts into reproducible prototypes and deployable solutions.