Robotics Engineer

Vedya Labs; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Vedya Labs in Hyderabad, India, is seeking a senior Robotics Software Engineer to lead end-to-end development of perception, AI inference, motion planning, and real-time control for humanoid robots, AMRs, and autonomous systems.

You will collaborate with hardware, embedded, AI/ML, and product teams to deploy reliable robotic software, with hands-on ROS 2 development and on-device AI deployment across edge compute platforms.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Strong C++ and Python programming skills.
• Linux development, Git, CMake, GDB, and build/debug workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and integration of robotics applications spanning perception, AI inference, motion planning, and real-time robot control.
• Develop end-to-end robotics software for humanoid robots, AMRs, and autonomous systems.
• Collaborate with hardware, embedded systems, AI/ML, and product engineering teams to deploy robotics products.
• Hands-on ROS 2 development, open-source robotics frameworks, and AI model deployment on embedded compute platforms.

Skills

C++

Python

Object-oriented design

Software architecture

Debugging

Profiling

Linux development

Git

CMake

GDB

Tools

ROS 2

NVIDIA Isaac ROS

Isaac Sim

Isaac Lab

Nav2

MoveIt 2

ros2_control

SLAM

DDS

TF2

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