Postbaccalaureate Appointee - Robotics Software Developer, Rapid Prototyping Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory14 days ago
Lemont, IL, USAEntry Level
Base Salary
$59k - $92k/yr
Responsibilities
- Integrate robotic arms, mobile manipulators, and humanoid platforms into autonomous laboratory workflows.
- Develop and extend device modules and REST APIs in the MADSci laboratory orchestration framework.
- Set up, calibrate, troubleshoot, and bring up unfamiliar robotic hardware.
- Integrate cameras, tactile sensors, and force or torque sensors with robotic systems.
- Collect robot-learning demonstration data using teleoperation hardware.
- Support training and evaluation of policies built on robotics foundation models.
- Help determine which tasks should use learned policies versus conventional control.
- Work with robotics, software, and experimental science colleagues and contribute to MADSci as an open-source project.
Requirements
- Recently completed a bachelor's degree in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field.
- Proficiency in Python and experience writing maintainable code for others to read.
- Hands-on experience with robotic hardware, including setup, calibration, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with ROS, ROS 2, another robot middleware or control framework, or a vendor SDK.
- Experience developing or consuming REST APIs and using Git for collaborative software development.
- Ability to bring up unfamiliar hardware from vendor documentation and make progress when documentation is incomplete.
- Experience integrating cameras, tactile sensors, or force and torque sensors with robotic systems.
- Experience with teleoperation hardware and collecting demonstration data for robot learning.
- Familiarity with PyTorch and exposure to imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or robotics foundation models.
- Experience contributing to an open-source project; laboratory automation, scientific instrumentation, or self-driving laboratory exposure is preferred.
- Experience with containerized deployment using Docker.
- Ability to communicate clearly across robotics, software, and experimental science teams.
Benefits
- Comprehensive employee benefits are included as part of the total rewards package.
- Full-time, long-term fixed-term position.
About Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory that conducts research in energy, climate, materials, computing, and national security. Headquartered in Lemont, Illinois and founded in 1946, it is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC and operates major user facilities such as the Advanced Photon Source and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Work is funded by federal programs with partnerships and technology transfer to industry and academia.