Federal Sensor Systems Engineer – Robotics Autonomy

Pittsburgh Robotics Network; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Equity in the company

Generous paid time off

Job summary

FieldAI seeks a Sensor Systems Engineer for its Federal Team to design, integrate, calibrate, and validate sensing systems on wheeled robotic platforms across federal and commercial programs.

You will work with LiDARs, depth cameras, IMUs, GPS, and more, ensuring synchronized, accurate data across environments while collaborating with autonomy, compute, electrical, and mechanical teams. Onsite in Irvine, CA.

Qualifications

• Education: B.S., M.S. or Ph.D. in Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Physics, or a related field.
• Experience Level: We are recruiting across a wide range of experience levels from entry level engineers to senior and staff engineers.
• Hands-on Sensors Experience: Hands-on work with perception sensors such as LiDAR, depth cameras, IMUs, GPS.
• Systems Thinking: Cross-functional collaboration experience across electrical, mechanical, and software teams.
• Sensor Physics: Strong foundation in optics, signal processing, and electromagnetic wave propagation.
• Lab Skills: Hands-on testing, calibration, and debugging skills (oscilloscopes, logs, vibration/thermal setups)
• Communication Protocols: Experience with protocols such as USB, Ethernet, GMSL, CAN, I2C, and CSI.
• Computer & Software: Experience working with ROS/ROS2, sensor drivers, coordinate transforms (TF), and timing protocols (PTP, NTP, etc.).
• Timing & Triggers: Experience with timestamping, synchronization, triggering, and latency constraints.
• Calibration & Characterization: Experience designing and executing intrinsic, extrinsic, and temporal calibrations, along with sensor characterization under real-world environmental conditions.
• Simulation: Experience high-fidelity simulation environments (Gazebo, Isaac Sim, RViz) for sensor modeling.

Responsibilities

• Sensor System Design
• Sensor Architecture: Define sensing requirements; select sensors such as LiDARs, depth cameras, GPS, IMUs, ToF.
• Systems Integration: Integrate sensors with electrical, mechanical, and software systems; ensure power, thermal, and protocol compatibility.
• Spatial Performance: Meet spatial sampling, range, resolution, and transform accuracy requirements.
• Temporal Performance: Implement synchronization and latency minimization.
• Sensor System Implementation
• Performance Characterization: Evaluate sensor performance under real-world conditions.
• Calibration: Design and execute intrinsic and extrinsic calibrations; build rigs as needed.
• Optimization: Tune configurations and processing pipelines for optimal performance.
• Documentation: Maintain configuration files, launch scripts, drivers, and firmware states.
• Sensor System Production & Servicing
• Build: Procure sensors; develop QA checks; support payload integration at scale.
• Debug: Root-cause analysis across hardware and software boundaries.
• Monitor: Develop protocols for sensing system health and data quality during field deployments.

Job description

FieldAI seeks a Sensor Systems Engineer for its Federal Team to design, integrate, calibrate, and validate sensing systems on wheeled robotic platforms across federal and commercial programs.

You will work with LiDARs, depth cameras, IMUs, GPS, and more, ensuring synchronized, accurate data across environments while collaborating with autonomy, compute, electrical, and mechanical teams. Onsite in Irvine, CA.