Robotics Software Engineer at area17

You will drive research and development to control machines with perception-based awareness. Ideal candidates will have experience interfacing with sensors and writing planning/control software for real hardware. The candidate will be involved in developing short and long-term reactive motion planning strategies, and be responsible for integrating real-time obstacle detection and avoidance methods using computer vision and computational geometry algorithms.

Responsibilities
• Apply skills in system design, software development, control systems, sensor integration, calibration, and general engineering principles to develop fully autonomous robots
• Research, design and implement state-of-the-art robotics algorithms and software systems

Qualifications
• MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience focusing on Robotics
• 3+ years of experience related to algorithm design, software development, architecture of complex software systems for robotics applications
• Strong software implementation skills with C++
• Understanding of computer vision techniques as applied to real time robotic systems is a plus