Autonomy Engineer

3 hours ago

Houston, TX, USASenior

H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

Design and implement autonomy and behavior-coordination algorithms for an industrial humanoid platform
Integrate robot skills with manipulation, locomotion, and perception engineers
Develop plan-execution approaches combining classical control and learned policies
Implement reactive, safe, adaptable, and explainable behavior execution
Build data-curation pipelines for understanding real-world industrial tasks
Develop synthetic-data-generation pipelines for post-training humanoid world models
Create autonomous behavior evaluation, benchmarking, and regression-testing pipelines

MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field
At least 5 years of professional robotics experience with a primary focus on autonomy
At least 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 robotics
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, and CI/CD
Bonus: experience using VLMs to generate task plans for autonomous robots
Bonus: exposure to humanoid robot locomotion, navigation, manipulation, or perception
Bonus: experience with semantic mapping and scene understanding for autonomous mobile robots
Bonus: experience with NVIDIA Isaac Lab for reinforcement-learning environment setup and training
Bonus: experience with generative and symbolic planning approaches
Bonus: experience with ROS2 libraries for autonomous planning and navigation