Perception Robotics Engineer

Gaia AI; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Gaia AI is building a robotics perception team to deliver high-impact technology for climate-focused applications. We are hiring for a full-time, in-person robotics perception engineer / systems programmer with ownership and fast execution.

Onboarding can start immediately or in the coming weeks. You will work on LiDAR SLAM, sensor fusion, and data pipelines, collaborating across the team to deploy robust perception software.

Qualifications

• 2+ years proven experience with robotics algorithms and Rust/C/C++ (you should be able to point to shipped work).
• Demonstrated teamwork and strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope and scale.
• Research and implement robotics algorithms from literature.
• Develop drivers and visualizations for sensors.
• Build and maintain internal robotics tools.
• Identify bottlenecks and optimize software performance.
• Design software architecture for robotics systems.
• Create data pipelines and integrate data from multiple sensors.
• Deploy to AWS using Docker and container-based workflows.
• Write technical documentation.

Skills

Rust

C/C++

Robotics algorithms

Data pipelines

Tools

Docker

AWS

Job description

We are currently building our robotics team and hiring for a full-time, in-person robotics perception engineer / systems programmer with the ambition to help get things done. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to apply their skills towards fighting climate change, wants to experience the high-pace, high-ownership setting of an early startup, and can start onboarding immediately or in the next few weeks.

Climate change is one of the most meaningful challenges of our generation, and every possible solution put forward by the United Nations IPCC requires scaled carbon sequestration. Forests are critical for this reason, but they need to be managed for a growing set of values including sustainable wood production, carbon, biodiversity, and wildfire risk mitigation. We are an MIT climatetech startup applying autonomous vehicle technology to solve this problem, utilizing cutting edge sensors and perception AI to build the modern tooling needed to manage forests with great accuracy and confidence.

Job brief

We are looking for a perception robotics engineer who is motivated in building high-impact technology that will make the world a better place. Responsibilities may range from implementing our vision data pipeline, training neural networks, working on LiDAR-based SLAM, evaluating different sensors, visualizing data in order to make decisions on how to improve the system, and sensor fusion between LiDAR, computer vision, and satellite imagery. You will work with the whole team and help everywhere you are willing and able. This is an opportunity to join a well-positioned, ambitious technology startup making a large impact fighting climate change.

Responsibilities (may include)

Collaborate with stakeholders and other team members to define the scope and scale of robotics projects

Research and implement algorithms from robotics papers

Evaluate and write drivers and visualizations for sensors

Develop and maintain internal robotics tools

Identify bottlenecks and improve software efficiency

Design software architecture

Design, implement, and integrate data pipelines

Deploy to AWS using Docker

Write technical documentation

Requirements

2+ years proven experience with both robotics algorithms and Rust/C/C++ (you should be able to point to shipped work). If you have fewer than two years of full-time employment in either, please justify how you have equivalent experience.

Team spirit; strong communication and collaboration skills