Robotic Engineer

Vedya Labs; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Vedya Labs in Hyderabad, India is seeking a robotics software engineer to lead the design, development, and integration of perception, AI inference, motion planning, and real-time robot control for humanoids, AMRs, and robotic arms.

You will work with hardware, embedded systems, and AI/ML teams to deliver reliable, deployable robotic products, with hands-on ROS 2 development and edge AI deployment on embedded compute platforms.

Qualifications

• Hands-on ROS 2 application development experience.
• Experience integrating open-source robotics frameworks and AI models.
• Deploy software on embedded compute platforms.
• Experience delivering customer-facing demonstrations of robotics products.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and integration of robotics software applications.
• Develop end-to-end software for humanoid robots, AMRs, and autonomous systems.
• Collaborate with hardware, embedded systems, AI/ML, and product teams.
• Deliver ROS 2 applications and deploy on embedded compute platforms.

Skills

C++ programming

Python programming

Linux development

Git workflows

CMake

GDB

ROS 2 dev

DDS/TF2/Launch

Tools

NVIDIA Isaac ROS

Isaac Sim

Job description

Role & Responsibilities / What youll do:

The candidate will lead the design, development, and integration of robotics applications that combine perception, AI inference, motion planning, manipulation, navigation, and real-time robot control.

The role involves developing end-to-end robotics software applications for humanoid robots, robotic manipulators, AMRs, and other intelligent autonomous systems. The candidate will work closely with hardware, embedded systems, AI/ML, and product engineering teams to transform AI capabilities into reliable, deployable robotic products.

The ideal candidate has to have hands-on experience developing ROS 2 applications, integrating open-source robotics frameworks and AI models, and deploying software on embedded compute platforms.

• ROS 2 Application Development
• Physical AI Application Development
• Robot Hardware and Sensor Integration
• Edge AI and Deployment
• Simulation, Testing, and Validation

Required skills / Whom we are looking for:

• Experience with humanoid robots, AMRs, robotic arms, quadrupeds, or autonomous systems.
• Experience with NVIDIA Isaac ROS, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, or related robotics tools.
• Experience delivering customer-facing demonstrations or commercial robotics products.

Programming and software engineering

• Strong C++ and Python programming skills.
• Object-oriented design, software architecture, debugging, profiling, and performance optimization.
• Linux development, Git, CMake, GDB, and build/debug workflows.

ROS 2

• Hands-on experience developing production-oriented ROS 2 applications.
• Strong understanding of ROS 2 communication, executors, QoS, DDS, TF2, launch systems, and custom interfaces.
• Experience integrating third-party ROS 2 packages and debugging multi-node systems.

Robotics

• Understanding of robot kinematics, coordinate frames, trajectories, navigation, and manipulation.
• Practical experience with at least one of Nav2, MoveIt 2, ros2_control, SLAM, and robot SDK integration.
• Familiarity with robot simulation and real-world deployment.
• Experience integrating AI/ML models into robotics applications.
• Familiarity with computer vision, object detection, tracking, segmentation, pose estimation, or multimodal AI.
• Understanding of AI inference pipelines and deployment on edge compute hardware.
• Performance analysis, documentation, version control, and collaborative software development.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with BSP development and board bring-up.
• Familiarity with VLM/VLA models, imitation learning, behavior trees, and task planning.
• Real-time control integration, embedded Linux, sensor drivers, and hardware interfaces.
• Contributions to open-source robotics projects or reusable robotics software frameworks.
• Experience with WebRTC, voice interfaces, multimodal interaction, or remote robot monitoring.
• AI/ML model development/optimization for Edge applications on DSP/NPU/GPU