Robotics Engineer, Advanced

at  Zebra Technologies

OVERVIEW:

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As a Robotics Engineer at Zebra-Fetch you’ll be developing highly scalable, fault tolerant, and highly optimized systems for a large number of collaborative robots using C++. The navigation team writes and maintains software responsible for getting mobile bases safely from place to place including perception, planning, localization and control. Duties as a member of the Navigation Team include developing cutting edge autonomous navigation algorithms and introspecting/debugging non-deterministic processes. We are looking for developers with strong problem-solving skills, the ability to consider the whole system, and a healthy understanding of real-world sensors and other hardware limitations.
This role will be driving highly scalable, fault tolerant server-side and client-side applications for a large number of collaborative robots using various programming languages. This role needs to readily make decisions relating to algorithm development, framework design, implementation, and practical utility.

Responsibilities:

• Lead investigations in understanding how our robots perform in their environments to driveimprovements to the robot’s success
• Lead in the research and proposal of algorithms and approaches for pushing the envelope in theperformance of autonomous robots
• Lead more junior members of the team in research activities
• Deliver innovations into production quality code that can be deployed to hundreds of robots
• Manage robotic software and systems and their connection to cloud systems.
• Develop and integrate mobile robot navigation technology, including low-level control systems,and higher-level behaviors.
• Collaborate across functions with cloud and embedded systems teams to develop creativesolutions for the continuous improvement of robot performance
• Work with System Test / Quality Engineering team to develop test plans for new features
• Estimate scope and effort of large complex features through epic / story decomposition
• Serve in a leadership capacity for carrying out software development in advanced C++, andproviding guidance on best practices and software architecture

Qualifications:

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field and 8+ years of experience, or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field and 6+ years of experience, orPhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field and 2+ years of experience.
• 8+ years of work experience in Robotics or related field (experience could includerelevant MA/PHD program / research).
• At least 1 year work experience (or thesis project) working with ground based mobile robots in unstructured environments
• At least 1 year work experience (or similar) developing on a robotics or other automation solution with real-use deployments at multiple customer sites
• Strong coding skills in modern languages, especially Modern C++ (C++ 11 or above) and Solid understanding of multi-threaded programming, mutexes, condition variables, etc.
• Experience with programming embedded systems and working with external hardware devices

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

• Software development experience in a Linux environment working in collaboration withhardware and software teams
• Solid understanding and experience in design patterns, data structures and advancedprogramming techniques
• Implementing complex algorithms with efficient and optimized C++ code
• Strong communication, troubleshooting, and debugging skills
• Familiarity with python, ROS, Docker, Git, JIRA,
• Designing and implementing different path planning algorithms and approaches (e.g. A,RRT, etc.) for the purposes of autonomous navigation
• Implementing graph-based SLAM combining laser and vision-based sensing in achallenging environment
• Proficient in machine learning and applying it to perception and localization applications

NICE TO HAVE EXPERIENCE/FAMILIARITY WITH:

• Designing and implementing different methods for obstacle recognition and tracking (eg.velocity obstacles)
• Advanced obstacle avoidance and predictive planning around dynamic obstacles
• Reinforcement learning approaches for improving path planning efficiency
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• Lead investigations in understanding how our robots perform in their environments to driveimprovements to the robot’s success
• Lead in the research and proposal of algorithms and approaches for pushing the envelope in theperformance of autonomous robots
• Lead more junior members of the team in research activities
• Deliver innovations into production quality code that can be deployed to hundreds of robots
• Manage robotic software and systems and their connection to cloud systems.
• Develop and integrate mobile robot navigation technology, including low-level control systems,and higher-level behaviors.
• Collaborate across functions with cloud and embedded systems teams to develop creativesolutions for the continuous improvement of robot performance
• Work with System Test / Quality Engineering team to develop test plans for new features
• Estimate scope and effort of large complex features through epic / story decomposition
• Serve in a leadership capacity for carrying out software development in advanced C++, andproviding guidance on best practices and software architectur