Field Robotics Engineer – Data Operations (all genders)
Core
Technical owner of multi-sensor recording systems integrating EO/IR cameras, lidar, radar, and IMUs for autonomous defense platforms.
Role type
Senior IC robotics engineer (sensor integration & data ops)
Builds
End-to-end sensor integration pipelines, ROS2 nodes, and onboard recording stacks for field data collection.
Domain
Defense technology, autonomous systems, multi-sensor fusion
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, C++, ROS2, hardware protocols (I2C, SPI, CAN, Ethernet), embedded Linux (NVIDIA Jetson), computer vision, time synchronization, calibration routines
Preferred skills
UAV/mobile robot experience, photogrammetry, low-level driver development, GStreamer, CUDA/TensorRT, lidar processing, simulation tools
Technologies
ROS2, NVIDIA Jetson, GStreamer, MCAP, OpenCV, Kalibr, PCL, PyTorch, Gazebo, Isaac Sim
Responsibilities
Integrate sensor suites from electrical interfaces to recording pipelines; design and implement sensor drivers and ROS2 nodes; solve temporal synchronization across distributed sensors; develop calibration routines for spatial unification; build and optimize onboard recording stacks on embedded compute; evaluate new sensors hands-on; join field data-collection campaigns to operate and validate systems; produce integration documentation and calibration reports.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
