Robotics navigation engineer
We are an early-stage robotics startup working on building general-purpose mobile robots that can do daily manipulation tasks. We are looking for a creative, skilled, and motivated robotics engineer to join our founding team in advancing robot dexterity.
Responsibilities
Design, implement, test, and deploy state-of-the-art planning, 3D navigation, perception algorithms on real robots.
Develop reliable and robust navigation system for complex indoor environments.
Improve and maintain our navigation software stack.
Build and ship high-quality and well documented Python and C++ packages with unit and integration tests.
Work with other teams to build a high-performance robotics system.
Qualifications
Graduate degree in Robotics, Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, etc., or equivalent research experience.
Passionate about working with robots and building robot products.
Experienced with SOTA navigation and planning algorithms.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Outstanding research/engineering skills for rapid research prototyping, open-source code release, or product development.
Proficient with Python, C++, ROS/ROS2; CUDA and Rust experiences are a plus.
Proficient with deep learning libraries such as PyTorch/TensorFlow/Jax.
Experience with real robot experiments.
Experienced with robot simulators such as Isaac Sim/ SAPIEN/ MuJoCo/Drake, etc.
Bonus Qualifications
Hands-on experience with deployment-ready navigation system using RGB cameras or 3D lidars is a plus.
Hands-on experience with large-scale robot fleet management is a plus.
Hands-on experience with real robot arms/hands/legs is a plus.
Deep knowledge of robotics (kinematics, dynamics, control, SLAM, etc.) is a plus.
Experience with deploying AI models onto NVIDIA Jetson/DRIVE embedded systems is a plus.