Senior Robotics Autonomy Engineer – Equity & Benefits

Persona AI, Inc.; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Performance-based bonus

99% employer covered medical benefits

Equity at early stage

Job summary

Persona AI, Inc. is building rugged humanoid platforms for heavy industry and seeks a Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Autonomy to design and implement the autonomy stack from simulation to shop floor deployment.

You will collaborate with manipulation, locomotion, and perception teams to develop plan execution using behavior trees and state machines, validate behavior in digital twins, and ensure safety and performance on live industrial sites. Houston, TX-based role.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field
• 5+ years of robotics experience with a focus on autonomy
• 2+ years applying world models to planning and scene understanding
• Experience with plan execution approaches such as behavior trees and state machines
• World model benchmarking and post-training experience in a 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++

ROS2

Git

Cosmos

IsaacSim

Plan execution

World models

Debug and test

Education

MS in Robotics

PhD in Robotics/CS

Tools

NVIDIA Cosmos

IsaacSim

Digital twin simulation

ROS2 libraries

Job description

Persona AI, Inc. is building rugged humanoid platforms for heavy industry and seeks a Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Autonomy to design and implement the autonomy stack from simulation to shop floor deployment.

You will collaborate with manipulation, locomotion, and perception teams to develop plan execution using behavior trees and state machines, validate behavior in digital twins, and ensure safety and performance on live industrial sites. Houston, TX-based role.