Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Autonomy
Persona AI Inc2 days ago
Houston, TX, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement autonomy and behavior coordination algorithms for an industrial humanoid robot platform.
- Integrate manipulation, navigation, perception, and teleoperation capabilities into autonomous robot behaviors.
- Develop plan execution approaches combining classical control and learned policies.
- Build reactive, safe, adaptable, and explainable behavior execution systems.
- Integrate autonomy with robot safety, health monitoring, bring-up, and safe shutdown.
- Create pipelines for autonomous behavior evaluation, benchmarking, and regression testing.
- Implement data curation pipelines for real-world industrial tasks.
- Develop synthetic data generation pipelines for post-training humanoid world models.
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 5+ years of professional robotics experience with a primary focus on autonomy.
- Experience with plan execution approaches such as behavior trees and state machines.
- Strong hands-on experience with NVIDIA IsaacSim and Mujoco for robotic simulation.
- Strong fundamentals in Python, C++, data structures and algorithms, git, code review, and CI/CD.
- Experience with synthetic data generation, data curation, and benchmark evaluation.
- Bonus: exposure to humanoid locomotion, navigation, manipulation, or perception.
- Bonus: experience with NVIDIA Isaac Lab for reinforcement-learning environment setup and training.
- Bonus: experience with ROS2 libraries for autonomous planning and navigation.
- Bonus: experience with generative and symbolic planning, VLAs/VLMs, world-model benchmarking and post-training, NVIDIA Cosmos, semantic mapping, and scene understanding.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, performance-based bonus, 100% employer-covered medical benefits for most healthcare plans, early-stage equity, and competitive PTO.
- Company-wide paid winter break from December 24th through January 2nd.
- Full-time, exempt position based in Houston, Texas, with 10% travel.
- Opportunity to work on humanoid robots for industrial environments alongside a team emphasizing creativity and continuous learning.