Robotics Engineer

Robotics Navigation & Control Engineer — PerceptionAtlanta, Georgia · On-site preferred (hybrid considered for exceptional candidates) · Up to $225,000 · No visa sponsorship (US Citizens / Green Card holders only)The companyAn early-stage robotics company building autonomous systems for freight logistics. Their robots load and unload trailers in live customer facilities today — this isn't a research project, it's a shipped product.The roleYou'll own both sides of the autonomy stack: perception (LiDAR, cameras, IMUs, sensor fusion) and navigation & control (path planning, motion controllers, localisation). Your work goes straight onto production robots operating alongside people and heavy cargo.What you'll be doingDesigning and maintaining the perception pipeline — object detection, segmentation, localisation, mappingBuilding path planning and motion control (PID, MPC, LQR)Integrating and calibrating LiDAR, depth cameras, and IMUs on production platformsDeveloping point cloud processing, filtering, clustering, and registration for SLAMBuilding sensor fusion using EKF / particle filters for accurate state estimationCreating and maintaining datasets for model training, validation, and regression testingDebugging perception and control failures on deployed robots using logs and on-site investigationWorking closely with hardware and controls teams to keep outputs aligned with downstream requirementsWhat you'll need5+ years building perception or navigation systems for physical robots at a robotics or AV companyStrong C++ and PythonDeep LiDAR processing experience — filtering, clustering, registration, SLAMCamera-based perception experienceProduction ROS or ROS2 experienceSensor calibration experience — intrinsic, extrinsic, multi-sensorFamiliarity with PyTorch or TensorFlow for perception tasksA track record shipping software to real robots in real environments — not simulation onlyStrong hardware debugging skillsNo formal education minimum. Shipped, production experience matters more than academic background here.Nice to haveGazebo or similar physics simulation experienceROS migration experienceAWS IoT / Greengrass or similar edge-cloud experienceBackground in logistics, warehousing, or freight