Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Autonomy

• Job Title: Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Autonomy
• Department: Software
• Reports To: Behavior Coordination Lead
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Location: Houston, TX
• Design and implement autonomy and behavior coordination algorithms for an industrial humanoid platform
• Work with manipulation, locomotion, and perception engineers to integrate robot skills into autonomous robot behaviors
• Develop plan execution approaches that combine classical control and learned policies
• Design and implement behavior execution that is reactive, safe, adaptable, and explainable
• Implement data curation pipelines that enable our robots to understand a variety of real-world industrial tasks
• Develop synthetic data generation pipelines for post-training of humanoid world models
• Design and implement pipelines for autonomous behavior evaluation, benchmarking, and regression testing
• MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field
• 5+ years of professional experience in robotics, with a primary focus on autonomy
• 2+ years of experience applying world models to planning, reasoning, and scene understanding
• Experience with plan execution approaches such as behavior trees and state machines
• World model benchmarking and post-training experience in a robotics domain
• Strong hands-on experience with NVIDIA Cosmos and IsaacSim
• Experience with synthetic data generation, data curation, and benchmark evaluation
• Strong fundamentals in Python, C++, data structures and algorithms, git, code review, CI/CD
• Experience using VLMs to generate task plans for autonomous robots
• Exposure to humanoid robot locomotion, navigation, manipulation, or perception
• Experience with semantic mapping and scene understanding for autonomous mobile robots
• Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Lab for reinforcement learning environment setup and training

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