- Robot type
- Robot AI and Software
- Location
- San DiegoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jul 24, 2026
- Salary
- $179,505–$224,381 a year
Full-time
Senior Autonomy Engineer
Job description
Named a top workplace by the San Diego Union Tribune and USA today in 2025, we make life-changing impacts through innovation, helping workers globally unlock their abilities in orchestration with intelligent machines.
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.
Brain Corp is a San Diego, California, USA-based AI company creating transformative core technology for the robotics industry.
Job requirements
- Master’s Degree. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- 5+ years of relevant industry or research experience building autonomy, perception, or ML systems
- Strong fluency in Python and C++ in a Linux environment.
- Demonstrated track record of taking research ideas and papers into deployed implementations.
- Depth in one or more of: machine learning (supervised, self-supervised, imitation, RL), SLAM and state estimation, motion planning, or 3D perception.
- Hands-on experience with PyTorch (and/or JAX), modern training pipelines, and contemporary architectures (transformers, diffusion models, vision-language-action models).
- 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.