Sr. Robotics Engineer (Controls)

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What we need: In this role, you will combine your passion and enthusiasm for robotics, open-source software and hardware technologies. You will work alongside Fresh customers and partners to build solutions, identify industry wide technical trends and help guide strategic technical decision making for the Fresh robotics team.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with robotics engineering, controls theory, robot simulation, Robotic Operation System and Software development on edge. Excellent business and communication skills are a must to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer open questions. You should be able to work well with clients to understand the business requirements and relevant solution paths.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Lead technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in pre-sales on-site visits, understanding customer requirements, creating consulting proposals and creating packaged Robotics service offerings.
• Mentor and guide the Fresh Robotics team, mapping individual goals into company efforts and align them with current technology roadmaps
• Integrate architectures and solutions into a cohesive product roadmap in partnership with Product Management, identifying risks and leading project success 
• Ensure that features and deliverables meet and exceed quality requirements across products 
• Define, analyze and review software requirements to meet defined and anticipated customer needs and system quality and performance standards.
• Design software architecture and interfaces and implement functionality, typically using a model-based approach.
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines in planning design and development of systems to ensure software and hardware performance and compatibility.

Requirements:

• BS/MS in controls engineering, robotics, computer science, or relevant fields.
• 5-10 years professional experience in robotics and robotics applications, with 3+ years developing controls software
• Has experience with control systems development including but not limited to:
  • Classical and modern control theory
  • Feedback control, state estimation and system identification
  • Modeling, simulation and analysis of complex dynamical systems and sensors
  • Sensor fusion (e.g. IMU, GPS, LIDAR, RADAR)
  • Implementation of control algorithms on hardware systems.
• Extensive experience in C++/Python programming, software design and architecture, and a history of having successfully driven projects to completion.
• Strong understanding of design patterns and Object Oriented Programming (OOP) - concurrency and real-time programming
• Experience developing, simulating, and deploying solutions on mobile robots and robotic arms.
• Excellent understanding of ROS (Robot Operating System), including ROS2 Control and MoveIt.
• Experience developing software in a Linux environment.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Experience deploying algorithms for path-planning for one or more agents, SLAM in a dynamic environment, verification and validation of autonomous behaviors.

The base salary hiring range for this position is $125,000 to $160,000. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 

Equal employment opportunity: All qualified persons will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, familial status, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability for which a reasonable accommodation can be made or any other status protected by law.  Assistance will be gladly provided upon request for any applicant with sensory or non-sensory disabilities.

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