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Persona AI

Robot type
Humanoid
Location
HoustonTexasUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Aug 25, 2026
Full-time

Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Autonomy

Job description

Job Title: Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Autonomy

Job responsibilities

  • Design and implement autonomy and behavior coordination algorithms for an industrial humanoid platform
  • Work with manipulation, locomotion, and perception engineers to integrate robot skills into autonomous robot behaviors
  • Develop plan execution approaches that combine classical control and learned policies
  • Design and implement behavior execution that is reactive, safe, adaptable, and explainable
  • Implement data curation pipelines that enable our robots to understand a variety of real-world industrial tasks
  • Develop synthetic data generation pipelines for post-training of humanoid world models
  • Design and implement pipelines for autonomous behavior evaluation, benchmarking, and regression testing

Job requirements

  • MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field
  • 5+ years of professional experience in robotics, with a primary focus on autonomy
  • 2+ years of experience applying world models to planning, reasoning, and scene understanding
  • Experience with plan execution approaches such as behavior trees and state machines
  • World model benchmarking and post-training experience in a robotics domain
  • Strong hands-on experience with NVIDIA Cosmos and IsaacSim
  • Experience with synthetic data generation, data curation, and benchmark evaluation
  • Strong fundamentals in Python, C++, data structures and algorithms, git, code review, CI/CD

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