Senior Autonomy Engineer — Industrial Humanoid Robotics (Equity)

Persona AI; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Equity

Paid winter break

Job summary

Persona AI is building a rugged humanoid platform to supplement the industrial skilled-labor workforce. Our robots are designed to perform complex tasks such as welding, grinding, and painting in demanding real-world environments.

To succeed, they must understand the job site, translate high-level objectives into executable plans, carry out those plans safely and reactively, and adapt as conditions change. We are looking for a Senior Autonomy Engineer to help design and build the autonomy stack

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Robotics, CS, or related field.
• 5+ years of robotics experience with focus on autonomy.
• 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.
• 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.
• Collaborate with manipulation, locomotion, and perception engineers to integrate robot skills into autonomous 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 robots to understand a variety of real-world 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++

World models

Plan execution

Robotics autonomy

Team collaboration

Education

MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

NVIDIA Cosmos

IsaacSim

ROS2

Job description

Persona AI is building a rugged humanoid platform to supplement the industrial skilled-labor workforce. Our robots are designed to perform complex tasks such as welding, grinding, and painting in demanding real-world environments.

To succeed, they must understand the job site, translate high-level objectives into executable plans, carry out those plans safely and reactively, and adapt as conditions change. We are looking for a Senior Autonomy Engineer to help design and build the autonomy stack