Senior Robotics Software Engineer

Tutorintelligence; Watertown (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tutorintelligence in Watertown, Massachusetts, is seeking a Member of Technical Staff (MoTS) to enhance the capabilities of our robotic systems. You will work on exciting challenges involving 2D and 3D perception, and advanced motion planning.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Python programming and a passion for robot learning and manipulation. You'll collaborate with a flexible team to solve complex problems.

Qualifications

• Strong command of programming in Python with real-time system support.
• Expect to optimize grasps and perform motion planning.
• Experience in supervised and self-supervised learning environments.

Responsibilities

• Improve sensory capabilities for robots.
• Build and optimize visual data representations.
• Design and control robotic system components.

Skills

Improving 2D and 3D sensing capabilities

Building visual representations of the world

Geometric perception

Control of robot arms

Reinforcement learning

Proficiency programming in a Python-Linux environment

Experience integrating and programming robot arms

Mechanical design of mounts and stands

Tools

Drake

OMPL

KLAMPT

Job description

Role Overview

We enable anyone to teach robots complicated vision and manipulation skills. Our robots observe, copy, adapt, and improve on what we show them. They are the students, we are the Tutors. The robot problems we tackle range from the classical to the unsolved with planning, computer vision, SLAM, optimization, machine learning, and more. We work mostly in Python and Linux.

Key Responsibilities and Qualification Areas

• Improving 2D and 3D sensing capabilities
• Building visual representations of the world
• Geometric perception
• Perception of seen and unseen objects
• Supervised learning and self‑supervised learning
• Control of robot arms
• Planning motion in the presence of obstacles
• Optimizing grasps and other basic manipulation primitives
• Motion planning
• Tools such as Drake, OMPL, KLAMPT, etc
• Multi‑robot planning
• Reinforcement learning
• Proficiency programming in a Python‑Linux environment
• Comfort with programming linters (Flake8, Mypy)
• Software support of real‑time systems
• Visualization of robot data
• Advanced command of Python (dunder methods, lambdas, exception handling, decorators)
• Design and control of end effectors
• Experience integrating and programming robot arms
• Mechanical design of mounts and stands

Role Structure

At Tutor, all employees hold the title Member of Technical Staff (MoTS). Work is flexible; people may start on one task and shift to another based on team needs.