SLAM Engineer — Home Robotics & Indoor Navigation

Sunday Robotics; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Sunday Robotics in Redwood City, CA is seeking a SLAM Engineer to enable our home robot to navigate safely in complex indoor environments. You will collaborate with perception, motion planning, and controls teams to build robust SLAM pipelines using LiDAR, camera, and IMU data.

The role emphasizes production-quality Python or C++ software, multi-sensor calibration, and delivering smooth, safe robot motion for real household use, with a focus on embodied AI and practical consumer hardware.

Qualifications

• Experience with vision-only or lidar-based SLAM pipelines.
• Deep understanding of spatial math including 3D rotation representations, frame transformations, camera projections.
• Familiarity with multi-sensor time-synchronization methods.
• Experience writing production-quality software in Python or C++.

Responsibilities

• Build robust indoor SLAM system fusing LiDAR, Camera, IMU and odometry data.
• Develop software pipelines and processes for multi-sensor calibration.
• Collaborate with perception and motion planning engineers on indoor navigation and collision avoidance.

Skills

SLAM experience

3D math

Python/C++ production code

Indoor navigation

Tools

GTSAM

Job description

Sunday Robotics in Redwood City, CA is seeking a SLAM Engineer to enable our home robot to navigate safely in complex indoor environments. You will collaborate with perception, motion planning, and controls teams to build robust SLAM pipelines using LiDAR, camera, and IMU data.

The role emphasizes production-quality Python or C++ software, multi-sensor calibration, and delivering smooth, safe robot motion for real household use, with a focus on embodied AI and practical consumer hardware.