Senior ROS Engineer for Field Autonomy

FieldAI; Peoria (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Equity participation

Job summary

FieldAI is seeking a ROS Developer to design, implement, and optimize perception, localization, and control modules on our autonomy API for real-world industries. You’ll work on production-grade software for autonomous systems in harsh environments, focusing on sensor integration and scalable autonomy.

Join a team delivering field-ready AI with rigorous engineering and real deployments, collaborating across AI, software, robotics, and field deployment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field.
• Strong software engineering skills delivering production-quality robotics applications.
• Expertise in C++ and Python, with clean, maintainable code.
• Hands-on experience with ROS/ROS2, building and deploying custom nodes.
• Solid understanding of localization, SLAM, sensor fusion, and navigation.
• Familiarity with sensor integration (LiDAR, thermal, RGB, depth, GPS, IMU) and multi-modal data.
• Experience with state estimation and real-time data processing.
• Comfortable with IPC and middleware networking.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain ROS/ROS2 packages for autonomy including navigation, mapping, control.
• Integrate and calibrate multi-modal sensors for autonomous missions.
• Build autonomy APIs for SLAM, path planning, mission logic.
• Implement real-time data processing pipelines using C++ and Python.
• Collaborate with perception engineers on AI-driven insights.
• Design and test autonomous behavior on physical platforms.
• Troubleshoot hardware/software interfaces and create diagnostics.

Skills

C++

Python

ROS/ROS2

Localization

SLAM

Sensor fusion

Navigation

Software engineering

Multi-modal sensors

Hardware testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics

Tools

ROS/ROS2

Git

Linux

Job description

FieldAI is seeking a ROS Developer to design, implement, and optimize perception, localization, and control modules on our autonomy API for real-world industries. You’ll work on production-grade software for autonomous systems in harsh environments, focusing on sensor integration and scalable autonomy.

Join a team delivering field-ready AI with rigorous engineering and real deployments, collaborating across AI, software, robotics, and field deployment.