Brain Corp

Senior Autonomy Engineer

San Diego, CA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$152k-$183kDetected 78 days ago

PythonC++Code ReviewCI/CDLinuxMachine LearningPyTorchNLPAgileInventory ManagementRoboticsElectrical EngineeringResearchMentoring

About the role

As a Senior Autonomy Engineer on our R&D team, you'll help define the next generation of software that lets robots perceive, learn, and act in unstructured indoor environments.
You'll work across the modern autonomy stack - from learned perception and prediction to mapping and motion planning - and ship capabilities that generalize across our fleet.
We're looking for someone equally comfortable reading a fresh arXiv paper, writing production C++/Python, and debugging behavior on a real robot in the lab.

Our purpose is to create autonomous technology that helps the real world work better.
Develop data engines and evaluation infrastructure that turn fleet logs into training data, regression tests, and shipped improvements.

Master's Degree. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent demonstrated experience.
Demonstrated track record of taking research ideas and papers into deployed implementations.
Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics:
Experience designing robotic systems with ROS 2 (or comparable middleware) and contemporary simulation tools such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, or Gazebo.
Comfort with the full ML lifecycle: data curation and labeling strategy, large-scale training, offline and online evaluation, and continuous deployment to production hardware.
Familiarity with modern engineering practices: CI/CD, code review, observability, and iterative delivery (i.e. Agile, Scrum).
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Contributions to open-source robotics or ML projects, publications at top venues (CoRL, RSS, ICRA, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML), or experience with on-device acceleration (TensorRT, ONNX, custom CUDA kernels).

The anticipated salary range for candidates who will work in San Diego, California is $151,545 to $183,449.
The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and length of experience within the job, type and length of experience within the industry, education, etc.
Brain Corp is a multi-state employer and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states. `

Brain Corp is funded by the SoftBank Vision Fund, Clearbridge, and Qualcomm Ventures.
Design, train, and deploy machine learning systems for perception, SLAM, prediction, and motion planning that enable safe navigation around people and obstacles.

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