Robotics Engineer, Navigation

Auxo Talent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Auxo Talent in San Francisco is seeking a Navigation Engineer to own how their humanoid robot understands where it is and how it gets somewhere else in real environments. You will build localisation and mapping for legged platforms and work on path planning, perception integration, and robust navigation.

The role involves delivering repeatable results on real robots, reporting to the founders within a close-knit team. On-site, salary base reflects a strong market in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of professional experience with navigation or SLAM deployed on physical robots.
• Strong Python and C++ programming skills.
• Hands-on experience with SLAM, state estimation and sensor fusion.
• Comfort with drift, dynamic environments and degraded sensing.
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate; on-site role.
• US citizen or green card holder; visa sponsorship not available.

Responsibilities

• Building localisation and mapping that holds up on a legged platform.
• Working on path planning, footstep planning and navigating around obstacles that move.
• Integrating navigation with perception and locomotion so the whole system behaves as one unit.
• Getting it running on the robot, in the real world, repeatably.
• Reporting directly to the founders with a strong wide team to collaborate with.

Skills

Python

C++

SLAM

State estimation

Sensor fusion

Job description

San Francisco | On site | $150,000 to $230,000 base

Navigation is easy on a wheeled robot in a mapped warehouse. It is a genuinely open problem on a humanoid in a space nobody surveyed first.

Working with a humanoid robotics company in San Francisco who are hiring a Navigation Engineer to own how their robot understands where it is and how it gets somewhere else, in real environments rather than curated one.

What you would be doing

• Building localisation and mapping that holds up on a legged platform


• Working on path planning, footstep planning and navigating around obstacles that move


• Integrating navigation with perception and locomotion so the whole thing behaves as one system


• Getting it running on the robot, in the real world, repeatably


• Reporting directly to the founders with a strong wide team to collaborate with.

What we need to see

• Minimum 1 year of professional experience with navigation or SLAM deployed on physical robots


• Strong Python and C++


• Hands on experience with SLAM, state estimation and sensor fusion


• Comfort with the messy parts: drift, dynamic environments, degraded sensing


• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate. This role is on site


• Must be a US citizen or green card holder. This client is not able to sponsor or transfer visas

Why this one is different

Legged navigation in unstructured environments is not a solved problem. You would be working on it rather than reading about it.