Principal Physical AI Engineer — Swarm Robotics & MRS

ENGGSOL PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ENGGSOL PTE. LTD. seeks a Principal Physical AI Engineer to advance next-gen MRS/Swarm collaboration solutions. You will drive real-time distributed planning, coordination, and perception for autonomous robot teams in complex environments.

Lead development of ROS2-based autonomy stacks, data pipelines, and simulation-to-physical validation across Gazebo, Webots, and Isaac Sim. Collaborate with cross-functional robotics teams and shape customer-centric MRS capabilities.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Experience building multi-robot or swarm systems.
• Deep knowledge of distributed architectures for multi-agent/swarm systems.
• Strong programming in Python and/or C++.
• Familiarity with ROS2, microservices, or real-time systems.
• Familiarity with simulation tools Gazebo/Ignition, Webots, Isaac Sim.
• Understanding of distributed data fusion, SLAM, localization and planning.
• Experience with AI frameworks (generative/agentic).
• Knowledge of pub/sub, DDS, gRPC.
• Collaborating across teams on complex robotics projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain multi-robot collaboration modules including task allocation and data fusion.
• Integrate robotics hardware drivers, sensors, and simulators.
• Design real-time data pipelines for robot-to-robot and robot-to-cloud messaging.
• Contribute to ROS2 nodes, services, actions, and autonomy stacks.
• Develop tooling for visualization, debugging, logging, and telemetry.
• Prototype in simulation and validate on physical robots.
• Collaborate with controls, perception, systems and AI/planning teams.
• Formulate technical solutions to meet customer requirements.
• Provide recommendations on MRS/Swarm tech to senior management.
• Lead strategic capability development for MRS/Swarm.
• Collaborate on R&D projects to explore new capabilities.

Skills

Python & C++ programming

Multi-Robot Systems

ROS2

Distributed systems & networking

Education

Masters/PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Tools

Gazebo/Ignition

Webots

Isaac Sim

Unity robotics

DDS

Job description

ENGGSOL PTE. LTD. seeks a Principal Physical AI Engineer to advance next-gen MRS/Swarm collaboration solutions. You will drive real-time distributed planning, coordination, and perception for autonomous robot teams in complex environments.

Lead development of ROS2-based autonomy stacks, data pipelines, and simulation-to-physical validation across Gazebo, Webots, and Isaac Sim. Collaborate with cross-functional robotics teams and shape customer-centric MRS capabilities.