Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Manipulation

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Requirements:

• Industry experience deploying mobile manipulation robots in real world applications.
• Experience developing manipulation algorithms on high-DOF robots.
• Familiarity with behavior trees, finite state machines, or similar behavior management and execution systems.
• Experience with perception and scene understanding especially as it pertains to manipulation.
• Strong robotics fundamentals, including kinematics, dynamics, sensing, and control.
• Experience using simulation tools such as Isaac Sim, Mojoco, Drake, or gazebo.
• Experience with automated testing for simulation.
• Strong debugging skills; the ability to identify and diagnose complex issues that arise within robotics.
• MS or Ph.D. in robotics, computer science, or related field or equivalent industry experience.
• Strong software experience in modern C++ and Python.
• Exposure to standard agile and software development processes including issue tracking tools (Jira), feature branching, version control (git), continuous integration and deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, test, and deploy autonomous behaviors for humanoid robots.
• Prototype autonomous behaviors in simulation and execute on robot hardware.
• Develop algorithms robust to environmental uncertainty and imperfect state estimation.
• Implement performance tests for evaluating the reliability of robot behaviors.
• Contribute to the software architecture and design of the autonomy stack.
• Collaborate with members of the autonomy teams to solve complex cross-functional problems.
• Engineer high quality software that is well tested, reliable, and maintainable.