Spatial AI R&D Engineer - On-Site Robotics

Navflex Inc; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 115,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Navflex Inc. in Colorado is seeking a Physical AI R&D Engineer to advance autonomy in real-world warehouse and logistics applications.

You will prototype, evaluate, and bring AI-driven perception and state estimation methods from literature into production on autonomous vehicles. You'll collaborate with robotics and software teams, work with real sensor data including LiDAR and cameras, and contribute to a production roadmap while staying current with the latest AI research and hardware

Qualifications

• MS or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• You've contributed meaningfully to a research project or thesis, with exposure to presenting and defending results
• You stay current with recent literature relevant to your area of focus.
• Willingness to seek guidance from senior team members on production-readiness decisions.
• Strong Python with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, plus working C++ or the clear ability to develop in it
• Experience training and evaluating models on real sensor data, not public benchmarks alone, across modalities such as camera, LiDAR, radar, depth, or inertial
• Professional fluency in English

Responsibilities

• Take promising methods from the literature through prototype to validated on-vehicle capability, then partner with core software engineering to turn a proof of concept into production code
• Train, evaluate, and iterate on models using real fleet data: logs, rosbags, and multi-modal sensor streams from vehicles in production
• Build and maintain the 3D representation the rest of the stack consumes, with the calibration and sensor health monitoring it depends on
• Contribute to baselines and evaluation methodology, applying and refining standards set by the team
• Work with core software and test engineering on annotation pipelines, data infrastructure, and simulation tooling

Skills

Python

C++

PyTorch

English

ML research

Model training/evaluation

Education

MS or higher in Computer Science/Robotics/Engineering

Tools

ROS

ROS 2

Job description

Navflex Inc. in Colorado is seeking a Physical AI R&D Engineer to advance autonomy in real-world warehouse and logistics applications.

You will prototype, evaluate, and bring AI-driven perception and state estimation methods from literature into production on autonomous vehicles. You'll collaborate with robotics and software teams, work with real sensor data including LiDAR and cameras, and contribute to a production roadmap while staying current with the latest AI research and hardware