Robotics Engineer (Remote)

Company: Funded Club
Location: Santa Clarita
Posted on: October 7, 2021

Job Description:

Senior Systems Engineer 

Location:

Remote 

About the Company:

At Cobalt Robotics, autonomous indoor robots work together with highly-trained remote human operators to keep Fortune 100 and SMB clients safe. They patrol 24x7 to help prevent break-ins, detect massive leaks and give our clients visibility over their space, assets, and data. Cobalt has merged hardware, software, human-in-the-loop expert support, and data to transform enterprise security services. Cobalt offers an innovative solution to address important security issues—consistently and accurately. They partner with businesses across every industry to further the potential of human-robot interaction and create smarter, safer workplaces. As of 2020, Cobalt is one of Silicon Valley’s fastest growing tech startups.

Cobalt's team is comprised of renowned technologists and security professionals. They’re backed by world class investors such as Sequoia Capital and Bloomberg Beta. In 2019, Cobalt was recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by the Silicon Valley Business Journal and San Francisco Business Times.

Cobalt is looking for people who want to make an impact with them and help build a company that is known for its excellence in engineering, passion for progress, and dedication to service. 

About the Role:

Cobalt’s fleet of robots actively operates in complex human environments, such as offices, warehouses, and factories, across 3 different continents. Their robots autonomously press elevator buttons to patrol on multiple floors, open handicapped doors, recharge themselves, and detect security and facilities risks using computer vision. They have many interesting problems to solve as the technology scales!

Cobalt is seeking an exceptionally strong Robotics Engineer with a total systems perspective to expand the functionality and robustness of their autonomous robots. You will have end-to-end responsibility to develop solutions for real-world robotic applications. Your work will have a direct impact on what Cobalt delivers to Fortune 100 and SMB clients around the world.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop safe behaviors that handle real world problems and interruptions
• Implement underlying robotics algorithms, such as planners, motion control, and perception, to improve our robustness and autonomy
• Productize and robustly deploy these algorithms onto our robots and cloud infrastructure
• Ensure code implementation is carefully thought through, keeping in mind readability, compute, scalability, maintainability, testing and other best practice considerations
• Proactively diagnose and resolve inefficiencies and bottlenecks in the engineering process
• Participate in design reviews and code reviews

Role Requirements:

• BA/BS in CS, Robotics, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 2+ years of industry robotics experience
• Experience with Python, C++, and ROS
• Experience with mobile robots
• Experience deploying code into the physical world (not just working in simulation or research lab)
• Experience finding 80/20 solutions to quickly solve problems in a fast paced environment

Eligible candidates must reside in the US and be authorized to work in the US.

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