Senior Software Engineer - Manipulation / Estimation

Are you ready to play a role in creating the next generation in humanoid robotics? As a Senior Software Engineer on the Manipulation R&D team, you will help design, develop, and deploy state estimation algorithms for bimanual manipulation with humanoids that operate at the leading edge of agility and dexterity. You will work closely with a world-class team of robot perception, planning and control experts to integrate your work into a challenging experimental roadmap. Technical problems you may encounter include the need to fuse information from vision, force sensors, kinematics, and potentially other sensors in a coherent representation of the state of the robot, object and its environment to enable manipulation behaviors. As a leader in the field you will shape novel estimation techniques which work alongside novel control algorithms to drastically improve the utility of mobile robots by enabling them to effectively interact with the world around them.

How you will make an impact:

• Write high-quality (documented, tested, maintainable) C++ code
• Identify promising algorithmic approaches, lead design review, and implement solutions to state estimation for bimanual manipulation of inertially relevant complex objects that interact with their environment.
• Work closely with members of the Atlas manipulation, controls, perception, and machine learning teams.
• Deploy and debug your code on Atlas, Spot and other robots.

We are looking for:

• MS in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• Experience developing scalable complex systems in C++.
• Expertise in modem techniques to state estimation, probabilistic inference, and/or sensor fusion.
• Strong analytical and debug skills.

Nice to have:

• PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• Robot hardware experience.