- Robot type
- Robot AI and Software
- Location
- San DiegoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jul 24, 2026
- Salary
- $209,644–$262,055 a year
Full-time
Staff 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 Staff Autonomy Engineer on our R&D team, you'll be one of the technical leaders setting direction for the AI that powers our robots. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you'll architect systems that span perception, mapping, prediction, and planning; drive multi-quarter initiatives from research idea to fleet rollout; and raise the technical bar across the org.
Brain Corp is a San Diego, California, USA-based AI company creating transformative core technology for…
Job requirements
- Master’s Degree. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- 7+ years of industry experience in embodied AI (robotics, self-driving, drones, or similar), with at least some of that time in a senior or lead capacity.
- Deep expertise in two or more of: machine learning, SLAM and state estimation, robotic perception, motion planning.
- Strong fluency in C++ and Python in a Linux environment.
- Demonstrated history of taking research ideas into production at meaningful scale.
- Deep, hands-on expertise with PyTorch (and/or JAX), modern training infrastructure, and contemporary architectures (transformers, diffusion models, VLA/foundation models).
- Extensive experience designing robotic systems with ROS 2 (or comparable middleware) and modern simulation environments such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, or Gazebo.
- Strong record of shipping ML-driven features to production hardware — including the post-launch reality of monitoring, debugging weird failure modes, rollback, and on-call.