Robotics Software Engineer, Vision-Language Reasoning & Behaviors

Team: Mission, Interaction & Intelligence

Location: Irvine, CA

Commitment: Full time

Workplace Type: onsite

What You Will Get To Do

• Develop visual reasoning and inspection algorithm and pipeline for real-world deployments.

• Build inspection and various robot behaviors as reusable primitives.

• Integrate on-edge vision-language inference into the behavior loop under real compute and latency budgets.

• Develop the robot's reasoning and judgment legible and integrate it across the mission workflow.

What You Have

• MS in robotics, computer science, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field, with 3+ years building software that runs on real robots.

• Strong C++ and Python, and hands-on ROS 2 experience designing nodes and systems that ship.

• Working knowledge of behavior trees and computer vision.

• Experience integrating learned models into a robotics system.

What Will Set You Apart

• Experience with open-vocabulary detection or visual grounding with VLMs on robots.

• GPU inference optimization on embedded hardware (TensorRT, quantization, ONNX).

• Thermal imaging or anomaly detection against reference imagery.

• Deployments on legged platforms in industrial environments.