Senior Engineer - Robotics

NewSpace Research and Technologies; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

NewSpace Research and Technologies, based in Bengaluru, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design and deploy production-grade perception systems for real robots. The role demands hands-on development, close collaboration with autonomy, hardware, and field teams, and mandatory ROS/ROS2 experience.

You will build perception pipelines, develop ROS/ROS2 nodes, and fuse sensor data from cameras, LiDAR, radar, IMU, and GPS.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of real-world software development experience in robotics perception.
• Experience with image processing and 3D point cloud processing (features, segmentation, spatial data analysis).
• Robotics application background (robots/AVs/drones/industrial automation).
• Strong Python programming skills and production-grade software shipping experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production perception pipelines on physical robotic systems.

Skills

Python programming

Robotics perception

Real-time systems

Sensor fusion

Tools

tf2

rosbag

rviz

image_transport

calibration pipelines

NVIDIA Jetson

Job description

We are a start‑up based out of Bengaluru & Delhi NCR. We are engaged in development of next generation missions and technologies (NGM&T) towards future warfare needs of the Indian defense forces. It is undertaking research towards enhancing persistence and autonomy for unmanned vehicles and robotic swarms. NRT’s product development portfolio includes a solar power stratospheric high altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) unmanned platform and an air/ground launched stand‑off autonomous system.

Role Summary:

We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer specializing in robotics perception to build and ship production‑grade perception systems for real robots operating in real environments. This role is hands‑on, high‑ownership, and tightly integrated with autonomy, hardware, and field operations. ROS/ROS2 and prior robotics application experience are mandatory.

What You’ll Do:

• Build and ship production perception pipelines deployed on physical robotic systems.
• Develop ROS/ROS2 nodes and distributed systems for real‑time perception (publish/subscribe, services, actions, TF).
• Integrate and fuse multi‑sensor data (e.g., camera, LiDAR, radar, IMU, GPS) into a reliable environmental model.
• Debug and harden systems where sensor data is noisy, incomplete, and imperfect.
• Partner with autonomy, hardware, and field teams to deploy quickly and iterate based on real‑world results.
• Improve runtime performance (latency/throughput), reliability, logging/telemetry, and maintainability.

Must‑Have Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience building real‑world software, with meaningful time spent on robotics perception.
• Experience in image processing and 3D point cloud processing, including feature extraction, segmentation, and spatial data analysis.
• Prior robotics application experience is required (robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial automation, etc.).
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Proven record shipping perception and/or sensor fusion capabilities into production or real deployments.
• Solid understanding of real‑time constraints, sensor timing/synchronization, and system‑level debugging.
• Comfortable making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs to meet performance and deployment goals.
• Able to work on‑site.

Strongly Preferred:

• Experience with sensor fusion, mapping, object detection/tracking, or multi‑object tracking.
• Familiarity with common robotics/perception tooling (e.g., tf2, rosbag, rviz, image_transport, calibration pipelines).
• Experience deploying to edge compute (e.g., NVIDIA Jetson) and optimizing runtime performance.
• Field deployment experience: diagnosing issues from logs, telemetry, and on‑robot behavior in messy environments.