- 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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