Onsite Robotics Engineer: Autonomy & Field Experiments

mcfa; Middle River (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Support for required professional cert

Job summary

MCFA in Middle River, MD is seeking a mid-level Robotics Engineer to support intelligent robotics research. You will focus on software and hardware integration for proof-of-concept demonstrations and evaluate autonomous behaviors on ground and aerial platforms.

The role involves designing autonomy stacks, deploying software, field tests in challenging environments, collaboration with ARL and university partners, and documenting results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in robotics, CS, ME, EE, or related field.
• 3–5 years of robotics software engineering or autonomy experience.
• US citizenship and ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
• Hands-on ROS/ROS2 development on Linux.
• Proficiency in Python and C++ for robotics software.
• Knowledge of perception, SLAM/localization, navigation, and motion control.
• Experience integrating sensors and compute on robotic platforms.
• Experience planning, executing and reporting robotics experiments.

Responsibilities

• Design and integrate a mobile-robot autonomy stack spanning perception, mapping and localization, navigation, control, and higher-level intelligence.
• Deploy autonomy software onto ground and aerial platforms, and integrate sensors, compute, and software for lab and field missions (Ubuntu and/or RHEL).
• Plan, execute, and support robotics experiments, including field tests in controlled but sometimes austere environments.
• Collaborate with ARL staff and university partners to refactor, optimize, and verify prototype algorithms.
• Analyze experimental data, document code and system architecture, and prepare reports, briefings, and publications.
• Support configuration, integration, and system administration on lab and field platforms as assigned.

Skills

Robotics software engineering

ROS/ROS2 development

Python

C++

Linux command line

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Robotics/CS/EE/ME

Tools

CMake

Git

ROS/ROS2

Job description

MCFA in Middle River, MD is seeking a mid-level Robotics Engineer to support intelligent robotics research. You will focus on software and hardware integration for proof-of-concept demonstrations and evaluate autonomous behaviors on ground and aerial platforms.

The role involves designing autonomy stacks, deploying software, field tests in challenging environments, collaboration with ARL and university partners, and documenting results.