Robotics Engineer

Meril; Vapi; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Meril is seeking a skilled Robotics Engineer to design and implement autonomous robotic systems for real-world applications in an Indian industry hub. The role focuses on motion planning, trajectory generation, and real-time control for multi-DOF robots.

You will build perception pipelines, implement SLAM/localization, and integrate AI with robotics for end-to-end systems. Collaboration with AI and control teams is essential for success.

Qualifications

• Strong robotics background with emphasis on motion planning and vision.
• Experience implementing FK/IK, Jacobians, and robot dynamics.
• Proven ability to develop SLAM, localization, and sensor fusion pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement autonomous robotic systems for real-world applications.
• Develop motion planning and trajectory generation for various robots.
• Optimize FK/IK and robot dynamics for multi-DOF systems.
• Build perception pipelines using diverse sensors.
• Develop AI-powered robotic systems with multimodal models.

Skills

FK/IK fundamentals

Robot dynamics

Motion planning

Collision-aware planning

SLAM/localization

Vision & 3D perception

AI for robotics

ROS / ROS 2

MoveIt / Gazebo / RViz

Python / C++

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Robotics / CS / Electrical / Mechatronics

Tools

ROS 2

MoveIt

Gazebo

IsaacSim

OpenCV

PCL

NVIDIA IsaacROS

Job description

• Design and implement autonomous robotic systems for real-world applications.
• Develop motion planning and trajectory generation algorithms for robotic manipulators, mobile robots, and humanoid robots.
• Implement and optimize Forward Kinematics (FK), Inverse Kinematics (IK), and robot dynamics for multi-DOF robotic systems.
• Develop collision-aware motion planning, including path planning, trajectory optimization, manipulation planning, whole-body motion planning, and collision detection/avoidance.
• Build perception pipelines using RGB cameras,depth cameras, LiDAR, IMU, and other sensors.
• Develop algorithms for object detection and tracking, object pose estimation, 3D perception, scene understanding, semantic segmentation, and sensor fusion.
• Implement and optimize SLAM, localization, mapping,and navigation systems.
• Develop and integrate Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), LiDAR SLAM, RGB-D SLAM, and multi-sensor localization pipelines.
• Develop AI-powered robotic systems using Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and multimodal foundation models.
• Design Agentic AI architectures that enable robots to reason,decompose tasks, use tools, plan actions, and execute complex multi-step tasks.
• Integrate high-level AI reasoning with low-level robotcontrol and motion planning.
• Develop robotic task planning systems connecting natural language, task planning, motion planning, and robot actions.
• Work with simulation environments for robot development, testing, and validation.
• Deploy and optimize robotics and AI workloads on edge computers, GPU workstations, or embedded platforms.
• Integrate perception, planning,AI, and control modules into complete end-to-end robotic systems.
• Debug and optimize real-world robotic performance, including sensor calibration, coordinate transformations, latency, synchronization, and hardware/software integration.
• Collaborate with AI engineers, mechanical engineers, control engineers, and research teams.

Required Technical Skills

Robotics & Motion Planning

• Strong understanding of Forward Kinematics (FK), Inverse Kinematics (IK), Jacobians, coordinate transformations, robot dynamics, and control fundamentals.
• Experience with sampling-based planning, RRT / RRT*, PRM, trajectory optimization, Model Predictive Control (MPC), manipulation planning,and whole-body controlor planning.

Perception &Computer Vision

• Strong knowledgeof computer vision,3D vision, depth perception, point cloud processing, object detection and segmentation, object pose estimation, and multi-object tracking.
• Experience with RGB, RGB-D, stereocameras, LiDAR, and IMU sensors.
• Experience with sensorcalibration and coordinate frame transformations.
• Experience with one or more of visual SLAM, RGB-D SLAM, LiDAR SLAM, Visual-Inertial Odometry, sensor fusion, localization, and mapping.
• Understanding of Kalman filters,Extended Kalman Filters(EKF), particle filters,pose graph optimization, and bundle adjustment.

AI & Physical AI

• Experience with deep learning frameworkssuch as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Understanding of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, multimodal AI, and Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Experience buildingAgentic AI systemscapable of task decomposition, planning, tool/function calling, memory and context management, and autonomous decision-making.
• Interest or experience in connecting foundation models with physicalrobotic actions.

Software & RoboticsFrameworks

• Strong programming skillsin Python and/orC++.
• Experience with ROS / ROS 2.
• Experience with MoveIt / MoveIt 2, Gazebo, IsaacSim, NVIDIA IsaacROS, RViz, OpenCV,Open3D, and PCL.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience workingwith humanoid robots,robotic arms, mobilemanipulators, quadrupeds, or autonomous mobile robots.
• Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, or other robotics simulators.
• Knowledge of imitationlearning, reinforcement learning, or robot learning.
• Experience with sim-to-real transfer and domainrandomization.
• Experience optimizing AI models for edge devices or GPU-basedrobotic systems.
• Knowledge of real-timesystems, distributed roboticsarchitectures, and client-server communication.
• Experience with Docker, Linux, Git, and CI/CD workflows.
• Research experience or contributions to open-source roboticsor AI projects is a plus.