Robotics Software Engineer, Multimodal Inspection & Sensing

FieldAI; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

FieldAI in Irvine, California invites engineers to advance multimodal sensing for real robots, combining camera, thermal, and other modalities into robust perception pipelines. You will optimize real-time performance and deploy on hardware in real deployments around the world.

We seek hands-on developers with ROS 2 experience and a strong background in sensor integration, calibration, and field-tested engineering. Join a team shipping reliable autonomy solutions from Southern California.

Qualifications

• MS in robotics, electrical, mechanical, aerospace, computer science, or related field with 3+ years building sensing software for real robots.
• Strong C++ and Python, and ROS 2 experience integrating sensor drivers and real-time pipelines.
• Hands-on camera and thermal calibration, cross-modal registration, and geometric sensor fusion.
• Experience with latency budgets, dropout handling, and data persistence through network outages.
• Field mindset: debugging sensors on robots in non-desk environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop inspection modalities beyond RGB, from sensing to insight, such as radiometric thermal, gas detection, and acoustic signatures.
• Fuse these modalities into the perception and mission pipeline.
• Implement sensing-based behavior activation.
• Deliver per-asset evidence and alerts into the data platform and on-prem flows.
• Analyze multimodal inspection performance across real-world deployments.

Skills

C++

Python

ROS 2

Sensor data integration

Real-time pipelines

Education

MS in robotics or related field

Tools

ROS 2

Sensor drivers

Job description

FieldAI in Irvine, California invites engineers to advance multimodal sensing for real robots, combining camera, thermal, and other modalities into robust perception pipelines. You will optimize real-time performance and deploy on hardware in real deployments around the world.

We seek hands-on developers with ROS 2 experience and a strong background in sensor integration, calibration, and field-tested engineering. Join a team shipping reliable autonomy solutions from Southern California.