Autonomy Engineer Intern

LionsBot International; Singapore; On-site; SGD 17,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

LionsBot International is offering a six-month internship in Singapore to help make autonomous cleaning robots more reliable in the real world. You will build and automate a simulation regression suite for the ROS 2 autonomy stack and run tests on every release candidate, reporting metrics.

You will own one autonomy feature improvement—from design through simulation validation to a real-robot release—working with field engineers to debug issues and document the pipeline for ongoing maintenance.

Qualifications

• Pursuing Bachelor's or Master's in robotics or related field.
• Hands-on ROS/ROS 2 experience on hardware.
• Knowledge of localisation, mapping, path planning, state estimation, or control.
• Proficient with Linux, Git; able to debug using rosbags, RViz, and logs.
• Available full-time on-site in Singapore for a 6-month internship.
• Nice to have: Nav2, SLAM Toolbox, Gazebo/Isaac Sim, CI/test automation.

Responsibilities

• Build and automate a simulation regression suite for the ROS 2 autonomy stack.
• Design and run real-robot regression tests and report metrics (mission success, interventions, collisions).
• Turn real-world failures from rosbags and field logs into reproducible simulation tests.
• Own one autonomy feature improvement (perception, localisation, planning or control) from design to release.
• Debug issues across the stack on physical robots with autonomy and field engineers.
• Document the pipeline and the feature so the team can run and maintain them after the internship.

Skills

ROS/ROS 2

C++/Python

Linux

Git

Rosbags debugging

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Robotics / related

Tools

ROS 2

RViz

Gazebo

Git

rosbags

Job description

LionsBot builds autonomous commercial cleaning robots, and this internship is about making them more reliable in the real world. You will build the test and evaluation pipeline that takes autonomy changes from simulation to validated runs on our physical robots, and you will own one autonomy feature improvement from design through to release.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and automate a simulation regression suite for the ROS 2 autonomy stack that runs on every release candidate.
• Design and run real-robot regression tests, and report metrics such as mission success rate, interventions and collisions.
• Turn real-world failures from rosbags and field logs into reproducible simulation test cases.
• Own one autonomy feature improvement (perception, localisation, planning or control) from design doc through sim validation to a real-robot release.
• Debug issues across the stack on physical robots alongside autonomy and field engineers.
• Document the pipeline and the feature so the team can run and maintain them after the internship.

Required Qualifications:

• Currently studying for a Bachelor's or Master's in Robotics, EEE, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, CS or similar; internship must be school-approved.
• Hands-on ROS / ROS 2 experience on physical robot hardware, in C++ or Python.
• Working knowledge of at least one of: localisation and mapping, path planning, state estimation, control.
• Comfortable with Linux and Git, and with debugging using rosbags, RViz and logs.
• Available full-time and on-site in Singapore for the full internship term (6 months preferred).
• Nice to have: Nav2, SLAM Toolbox or Cartographer, Gazebo or Isaac Sim, CI / test automation, robotics competition experience.