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.