Field Robotics Autonomy Engineer – Perception & Teleoperation

Momentum Power; New York (NY); On-site; USD 104,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Medical/dental/vision

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Momentum Power seeks a hands-on field-robotics engineer to integrate platforms, sensors, payloads, perception, autonomy, teleoperation, and manipulation into reliable systems for hazardous environments.

You will collaborate with subsea, nuclear, mechanical, electrical, controls, and cybersecurity teams to shape access envelopes and inspection coverage while ensuring robust validation and verification across software and hardware interfaces.

Qualifications

• PhD in robotics, computer or electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, mechatronics, computer science, controls, or a closely related discipline.
• 4+ years hands-on developing or deploying robotic, autonomous, or remotely operated systems outside purely academic software environments.
• Strong Python and/or C++, with practical ROS or ROS 2 experience or comparable integration frameworks.
• Experience integrating sensors, actuators, embedded or edge computers, communications, power systems, and mechanical payloads.
• Ability to troubleshoot across software, electrical, mechanical, networking, and operational boundaries.
• Ability to distinguish a research demonstration from a reliable, maintainable, field-deployable system.

Responsibilities

• Define robotics and autonomy approach for routine inspection, condition monitoring, mapping, maintenance, intervention, recovery, and abnormal-event response.
• Integrate mobile robots, ROVs, AUVs, manipulators, sensor payloads, edge computers, communications, and mission software into deployable systems.
• Develop perception and autonomy for localization, mapping, route planning, obstacle avoidance, inspection coverage, anomaly detection, and supervised manipulation.
• Build and maintain software in Python and/or C++ using ROS 2, vendor SDKs, and simulation environments with strong software-engineering discipline.
• Develop teleoperation, shared-control, fail-safe, degraded-mode, and operator-handoff concepts for safety-significant infrastructure.
• Build test rigs, hardware-in-the-loop tests, and field demonstrations; define acceptance criteria and verification plans.
• Evaluate commercial platforms and components and contribute to build-versus-buy recommendations.
• Collaborate with subsea systems engineer and cross-disciplinary teams to close physical and digital interfaces.

Skills

Python

C++

ROS 2

Sensor integration

Hardware debugging

Software engineering practices

Education

PhD in robotics or related field

Tools

Gazebo

MuJoCo

MATLAB/Simulink

Hardware-in-the-loop

Job description

Momentum Power seeks a hands-on field-robotics engineer to integrate platforms, sensors, payloads, perception, autonomy, teleoperation, and manipulation into reliable systems for hazardous environments.

You will collaborate with subsea, nuclear, mechanical, electrical, controls, and cybersecurity teams to shape access envelopes and inspection coverage while ensuring robust validation and verification across software and hardware interfaces.