Founding Robotics Autonomy Engineer (Mission Autonomy)

Andromeda Robotics Operations Pty; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Andromeda is hiring a founding Mission Autonomy engineer to architect and implement Abi's long‑duration decision‑making system. You will drive architecture, simulation, and deployment, coordinating across autonomy, chatbot, perception, audio and platform teams.

You will balance architectural leadership with hands‑on development, evaluating models, and shaping interfaces to enable Abi to plan, adapt, and recover during eight‑hour shift operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building autonomous systems or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with ROS 2, Nav2 and simulation tools (Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo).
• Strong design and implementation skills across planning, perception and control.

Responsibilities

• Design and shape the Mission Autonomy architecture for Abi.
• Prototype autonomy loop in simulation to guide decisions.
• Co‑design simulation capabilities with the simulation engineer.
• Lead contracts between autonomy, chatbot, perception, audio and platform teams.
• Define and implement action primitives and interfaces for the stack.
• Define degradation and safe operational behaviours for Abi.
• Establish deployment patterns from simulation to real robot demos.
• Build an evaluation system to measure long-horizon missions and failure modes.

Skills

Autonomous systems design

Cross-team collaboration

Trade-off analysis

Model evaluation

Education

MS in Robotics or CS or related field

Tools

ROS 2

Nav2

Isaac Sim

Gazebo

MuJoCo

Python

C++

Rust

Job description

Andromeda is hiring a founding Mission Autonomy engineer to architect and implement Abi's long‑duration decision‑making system. You will drive architecture, simulation, and deployment, coordinating across autonomy, chatbot, perception, audio and platform teams.

You will balance architectural leadership with hands‑on development, evaluating models, and shaping interfaces to enable Abi to plan, adapt, and recover during eight‑hour shift operations.