Autonomous Navigation & Perception Engineer for Robots

RAICAM Industrie S.r.l.; Piemonte; On-site; EUR 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

RAICAM Industrie S.r.l. is seeking a Navigation & Perception Engineer to enable autonomous robots to move safely in indoor spaces with people. You will own localization, mapping, planning, and perception pipelines across real hardware and simulated environments.

You will integrate multi-modal sensing, build semantic maps, and extend behavior for task goals, docking, and human-aware navigation, enabling robust, scalable indoor autonomy across platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong background in mobile robot navigation and 3D perception, with hands-on experience on real hardware.
• Deep understanding of SLAM, path planning, obstacle avoidance, and motion control of mobile robots.
• Solid experience with perception for navigation: point cloud processing, object detection and segmentation.
• Hands-on experience with ROS2 and the Nav2 framework.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python.
• Proven ability to debug and tune robots in the field, where sensor noise, latency and messy environments are the norm.

Responsibilities

• Own and harden our multi-modal navigation stack (localization, mapping, planning, obstacle avoidance) for dynamic, unstructured indoor spaces with people.
• Build semantic maps (object-level, open-vocabulary 3D scene representations) that ground natural-language goals into navigation targets.
• Fuse 2D/3D lidar, RGB-D cameras, IMU, and wheel odometry into the perception pipeline that feeds navigation.
• Extend the behavior layer above navigation: task-level goals, docking and approach maneuvers, recovery behaviors, and human-aware navigation policies.
• Build simulation environments for rapid testing of navigation and perception, validate on real hardware, and iterate.
• Handle multi-floor operation and building infrastructure: elevators, automatic doors, charging stations.
• Deploy and test navigation in realistic use-case scenarios.

Skills

Mobile robot navigation

3D perception

SLAM

Path planning

Obstacle avoidance

Motion control

Point cloud processing

Object detection

C++

Python

ROS2

Nav2

Tools

ROS2

Nav2 framework

Job description

RAICAM Industrie S.r.l. is seeking a Navigation & Perception Engineer to enable autonomous robots to move safely in indoor spaces with people. You will own localization, mapping, planning, and perception pipelines across real hardware and simulated environments.

You will integrate multi-modal sensing, build semantic maps, and extend behavior for task goals, docking, and human-aware navigation, enabling robust, scalable indoor autonomy across platforms.