Autonomy Engineer – Robotics (Equity & Flexible PTO)

Cleo Robotics Inc; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for new hires

Health, dental and vision insurance

Flexible PTO & holidays

Fully stocked kitchen

Job summary

Cleo Robotics seeks a Robotics Autonomy Engineer to advance AI and autonomy for Dronut UAV platforms. You will develop, integrate, test, and deploy autonomy algorithms using 3D LiDAR, IMU, and cameras to enable GPS-denied navigation and robust pose estimation, with a focus on real-time performance on embedded edge hardware.

You will collaborate across perception, sensors, flight controls, and vehicle dynamics, delivering reliable autonomy, simulation, testing, and deployment pipelines for a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Master's degree in Robotics, Autonomous Systems, Controls, or Computer Vision is a plus.
• 3–5 years of professional experience developing autonomy, localization, state estimation, navigation, and/or flight software.
• Proven experience deploying autonomy software on real robotic systems in the field.
• Strong hands-on experience with visual odometry, VIO, 3D mapping, sensor fusion, and SLAM.

Responsibilities

• Own and advance Cleo’s autonomy stack across localization, mapping, state estimation, sensor fusion, path planning, obstacle avoidance, and mission execution.
• Work across autonomy, perception, sensors, flight controls, and vehicle dynamics to solve system-level problems.
• Develop and harden visual‑inertial and LiDAR‑based SLAM, multi‑sensor fusion, sensor calibration, relocalization, drift management, and map persistence.
• Develop perception and reactive autonomy for obstacle detection, free‑space understanding, dynamic replanning, and safe navigation.
• Build autonomous behaviors including path following, mission execution, data collection, health monitoring, fault detection, redundancy, graceful degradation, and safe‑return behaviors.

Skills

C++

Python

ROS2

Linux

Embedded systems

Software engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Robotics/CS/Computer Engineering

Master's in Robotics/Autonomous Systems/Controls/CS

Tools

Git

Docker

Linux

NVIDIA Jetson

Qualcomm Snapdragon

Job description

Cleo Robotics seeks a Robotics Autonomy Engineer to advance AI and autonomy for Dronut UAV platforms. You will develop, integrate, test, and deploy autonomy algorithms using 3D LiDAR, IMU, and cameras to enable GPS-denied navigation and robust pose estimation, with a focus on real-time performance on embedded edge hardware.

You will collaborate across perception, sensors, flight controls, and vehicle dynamics, delivering reliable autonomy, simulation, testing, and deployment pipelines for a