Senior Autonomy Engineer — Robotics Safety & Systems

Andromeda; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Andromeda in Melbourne is seeking a first-principles Autonomy Engineer to advance Abi's autonomy stack, with emphasis on safety, reliability, and usability. This role focuses on production-grade systems, fault tolerance, and building a scalable robotics platform in human-centric environments.

You will contribute across path planning, SLAM, perception integration, and hardware debugging, collaborating with hardware, software, and customer teams to ship impactful autonomy features.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in motion planning, prediction, or behaviours for autonomous systems.
• Production deployment of ML-based autonomy solutions.
• Strong knowledge of classical control and ML-based methods.
• Shippable, robust software in modern C++ with tooling in Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain the autonomy stack for Abi.
• Hardening, testing across software, hardware and integrated systems.
• Maintain a fleet of Abis across production environments and customer sites.
• Hands-on hardware debugging and sensor/actuator improvements.
• Improve UX by interfacing autonomy with cloud and robot frontend.
• LeadRequirements gathering and full product lifecycle alignment.
• Develop high-fidelity IsaacSim simulations for end-to-end validation.
• Communicate complex technical ideas across multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Robotics expertise

Motion planning

Prediction & behaviours

First-principles thinking

System integration

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

C++

Python

Job description

Andromeda in Melbourne is seeking a first-principles Autonomy Engineer to advance Abi's autonomy stack, with emphasis on safety, reliability, and usability. This role focuses on production-grade systems, fault tolerance, and building a scalable robotics platform in human-centric environments.

You will contribute across path planning, SLAM, perception integration, and hardware debugging, collaborating with hardware, software, and customer teams to ship impactful autonomy features.