Senior Robotics Autonomy Engineer — Equity & Benefits

Persona AI; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Performance-based bonus

Medical benefits

Equity

PTO

Winter break

Job summary

Persona AI is building a rugged humanoid platform for demanding industrial environments, seeking a Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Autonomy to design and implement the autonomy stack from simulation to shop floor deployment.

You will work across simulation, testing, and live operations to deliver safe, reliable autonomous behaviors while collaborating with cross-functional teams and contributing to world models and data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree required with emphasis on robotics or CS.
• 5+ years robotics experience focusing on autonomy.
• Proven ability to implement plan execution using BTs or state machines.
• Hands-on with robotics simulators IsaacSim/MuJoCo.
• Strong Python and C++ software skills; version control and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement autonomy and behavior coordination for an industrial humanoid platform.
• Collaborate with manipulation, navigation, perception, and teleop teams to integrate skills into autonomous behaviors.
• Develop plan execution approaches combining classical control with learned policies.
• Create reactive, safe, adaptable, and explainable behavior execution.
• Integrate autonomy with safety, health monitoring, bring-up, and safe shutdown.
• Build pipelines for evaluating autonomous behavior and regression testing.
• Develop data curation pipelines for real-world task understanding.
• Generate synthetic data and world models for post-training analysis.

Skills

Autonomy

Robotics

Plan execution

Behavior trees

State machines

Python

C++

Git

CI/CD

Data structures

Education

MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science or related field

Tools

NVIDIA IsaacSim

MuJoCo

ROS2

Job description

Persona AI is building a rugged humanoid platform for demanding industrial environments, seeking a Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Autonomy to design and implement the autonomy stack from simulation to shop floor deployment.

You will work across simulation, testing, and live operations to deliver safe, reliable autonomous behaviors while collaborating with cross-functional teams and contributing to world models and data pipelines.