Robotics navigation engineer

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Santa Clara, CA
In-Office
Mid level
Robotics
The Role
The Robotics Navigation Engineer will design and implement navigation algorithms for mobile robots, improve navigation systems, and work on software development and testing.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

Top Skills

C++
Cuda
Drake
Isaac Sim
Jax
Mujoco
Python
PyTorch
Ros
Rust
Sapien
TensorFlow
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The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, California
15 Employees
Year Founded: 2024

What We Do

Building tomorrow's intelligence and automation.

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