Remote Mining Robotics Engineer — Autonomy & Perception

Rex.zone; United States; Remote; USD 41,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Rex.zone is hiring for a remote, full-time Mining Robotics engineer focused on designing, deploying, and maintaining autonomous and teleoperated robotic systems used in modern mine operations. You will support production-grade autonomy stacks across perception, SLAM, motion planning, controls, safety monitoring, and operational integration.

In this role you will build and maintain robotics software modules, develop perception pipelines for harsh mine conditions, implement SLAM and navigation,

Qualifications

• Mid-Senior experience delivering robotics or autonomy software in production or field-tested environments.
• Strong robotics fundamentals: coordinate frames, kinematics, estimation, control, and navigation.
• Hands-on experience with ROS/ROS2, Linux, and distributed robotics system debugging.
• Experience with camera/LiDAR perception stacks, computer vision, or point cloud processing.
• Practical knowledge of SLAM/localization approaches (e.g., EKF-based fusion, graph optimization concepts).
• Comfort working with logs, bag files, replay pipelines, metrics dashboards, and reproducible experiments.
• Ability to collaborate remotely across time zones with actionable design docs and implementation plans.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain robotics software modules for mining autonomy using ROS/ROS2 patterns, message interfaces, and node lifecycle best practices.
• Develop perception and sensor fusion pipelines for harsh mine conditions (dust, vibration, low light), including calibration and synchronization.
• Implement and tune SLAM, localization, and navigation components for off-road environments with sparse features.
• Design motion planning and control strategies for autonomous or supervised operation, including failsafes and degraded-mode behavior.
• Create simulation scenarios and test harnesses to validate autonomy behavior before field rollout.
• Integrate robotic systems with telemetry, fleet management, and safety monitoring signals to support operational readiness.
• Support field commissioning, log analysis, incident triage, and reliability improvements using structured root-cause analysis.
• Write clear engineering documentation, interface contracts, and test plans to enable cross-team delivery.

Skills

Robotics software

Robotics fundamentals

Perception / CV

SLAM / Localization

Data logging / experiments

Remote collaboration

System design docs

Tools

ROS/ROS2

Linux

Job description

Rex.zone is hiring for a remote, full-time Mining Robotics engineer focused on designing, deploying, and maintaining autonomous and teleoperated robotic systems used in modern mine operations. You will support production-grade autonomy stacks across perception, SLAM, motion planning, controls, safety monitoring, and operational integration.

In this role you will build and maintain robotics software modules, develop perception pipelines for harsh mine conditions, implement SLAM and navigation,