Robotics Engineer - Mobile
The National Robotics Engineering Center is seeking a dynamic robotics engineer who can help our team make autonomous field robotics a reality. We are working on a challenging problem that applies state of the art research in computer vision, 3D processing, sensor fusion, machine learning, and other techniques to a real world outdoor ground robotic system. We emphasize regular field testing where the engineers have a firsthand view of the robotics running their code. We are looking for an engineer with experience in autonomous vehicles to help take this research off-road and through difficult terrain robustly and safely.
Candidates should be eager to immerse themselves in challenges and be willing to learn and apply new domain specific knowledge.
Primary Responsibilities
- Developing software for autonomous ground robotic systems
- Adapting and integrating proprietary and open source software package and APIs.
- Participating in the software process: design, code reviews, etc.
- Building new tools for communication, logging and data analysis
- Creating and maintaining development tools and infrastructure for robotic systems
- Developing, documenting and directing software system testing, troubleshooting, and verification procedures
- Integrating customer and COTS hardware components: sensors, controllers, networking etc.
- Supporting manufacturing with hardware requirements and technology integration
- Conducting field tests and experimental characterization of performance
Qualifications
- B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent experience
- At least 1-3 years combined graduate academic and professional software development experience.
- Strong C++ skills
- Experience with ROS
- Experience with scripting languages for quick prototyping of autonomy applications (Python or Matlab preferred).
- Linux development experience
- Knowledge of object-oriented concepts
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrated success working as part of a cross-functional team
We especially want to hear from you if you have experience or qualifications in any of the following areas:
- 5+ years combined graduate academic and professional software development experience
- M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent experience
- Experience with any of the following:
- Ackerman steered or other wheeled vehicles
- Off-road Autonomy
- 2D motion planning
- Dynamic and controls for mobile robots
- Common ROS planning modules such as SBPL, OMPL, or Movelt
- Visual odometry, mapping and SLAM
- Control during aggressive vehicle maneuvers
- Embedded systems and real time applications
- Constructing GPU-based data processing pipelines for senor data
- Familiarity with image and point cloud processing algorithms
