Staff Robotics Engineer I (Robotics Integration Focus)

$85,000 - $115,000/Yr

Applied Research Associates - Warrendale, PA

Full-time - Entry Level

Warrendale, PA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Staff Robotics Engineer I position at Neya Systems focuses on robotics integration, specifically in the development of off-road autonomy for commercial and defense applications. The role involves enhancing and optimizing localization and path planning systems, conducting field tests, and collaborating with a team of engineers to create specialized autonomy behaviors. This position requires a strong technical background and offers the opportunity to work on diverse robotics challenges, including drone navigation and self-driving vehicle planning.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and optimize implementations of cutting-edge localization and path planning systems for off-road vehicles.
• Stress test and improve traversability estimation perception layers that model complex off-road environments through multi-modal sensor fusion.
• Work with other team members (inside and outside of Neya) to provide datasets to support autonomous navigation research and development.
• Conduct field tests and experimental characterization of system performance.
• Simulate and analyze edge case scenarios using our off-road-focused VISE simulation engine.
• Identify new opportunities to deploy autonomy, target customers and participate in customer engagement.

Requirements

• S or MS in Robotics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• At least 2 years of experience with a bachelor's degree or 0-2 years of experience with a master's degree.
• Skilled in writing object-oriented code in C++ using a Git-based workflow in a Linux environment.
• Some experience with publish/subscribe communication frameworks, especially ROS.
• Knowledgeable in modern software principles, architecture, and design.
• Excellent mathematical reasoning skills, especially with statistics and probability.
• Familiarity with unit testing suites such as GTest or CppUnit.
• General understanding of Agile software development cycle and development methodology.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with autonomous and robotic systems.
• Familiarity or experience with sensor data processing software libraries such as OpenCV and PCL and open-source robotics frameworks like ROS.
• Strong interest in autonomous technologies and applications.
• Experience with sensor data processing, path planning, localization, or control.
• Some experience with developing robotics algorithms.
• Demonstrated success working with cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• Premium Healthcare Benefits: Medical, dental and vision benefits with Neya covering 100% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
• Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance, 100% of plan premiums covered by Neya.
• Generous company holidays, all floatable throughout the fiscal year.
• Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
• Employees are eligible for contributions which not only add to the company's success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, and Roth 401(k).