Senior Autonomy Engineer for Industrial Humanoids

Persona AI Inc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Performance-based bonus

Equity

Job summary

Persona AI Inc. in Houston, TX is seeking a Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Autonomy to design and build the autonomy stack for industrial humanoids. The role focuses on world modeling, planning, and safe reactive behavior across real-world tasks such as welding and material handling.

You will collaborate with perception, manipulation, and locomotion teams to deploy intelligent autonomy from simulation to shop floor, validating with digital twins and post-training data pipelines.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of professional robotics experience with autonomy focus.
• 2+ years applying world models to planning, reasoning, and scene understanding.
• Experience with plan execution approaches such as behavior trees and state machines.
• World model benchmarking and post-training experience in robotics domain.
• Strong hands-on experience with NVIDIA Cosmos and IsaacSim.
• Experience with synthetic data generation, data curation, and benchmark evaluation.
• Strong fundamentals in Python, C++, data structures and algorithms, git, code review, CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement autonomy and behavior coordination algorithms for an industrial humanoid platform
• Work with manipulation, locomotion, and perception engineers to integrate robot skills into autonomous robot behaviors
• Develop plan execution approaches that combine classical control and learned policies
• Design and implement behavior execution that is reactive, safe, adaptable, and explainable
• Implement data curation pipelines that enable our robots to understand a variety of real-world industrial tasks
• Develop synthetic data generation pipelines for post-training of humanoid world models
• Design and implement pipelines for autonomous behavior evaluation, benchmarking, and regression testing

Skills

Python

C++

Data structures

Algorithms

Git

CI/CD

ROS2

World models

Plan execution

Behavior trees

State machines

Benchmarking

Synthetic data generation

Data curation

Reinforcement learning

NVIDIA Cosmos

IsaacSim

Education

MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science

Tools

NVIDIA Cosmos

IsaacSim

Job description

Persona AI Inc. in Houston, TX is seeking a Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Autonomy to design and build the autonomy stack for industrial humanoids. The role focuses on world modeling, planning, and safe reactive behavior across real-world tasks such as welding and material handling.

You will collaborate with perception, manipulation, and locomotion teams to deploy intelligent autonomy from simulation to shop floor, validating with digital twins and post-training data pipelines.