Robotics Engineer

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory•Laurel, MD

3h•Onsite

About The Position

Are you passionate about contributing to solving today’s greatest challenges in robotics? Do you enjoy working on meaningful interdisciplinary problems? Do you thrive in a collaborative and creative environment? If so, we're looking for someone like you to join our team at APL. The Robotics Group in the Research and Exploratory Development Department is an interdisciplinary team of researchers and engineers inventing the future across the broad spectrum of robotics, with applications that strengthen national defense, improve healthcare, advance space exploration, and address critical challenges facing the nation. We are seeking highly skilled, highly motivated engineers and computer scientists to join us in taking intelligent robotic systems from concept to reality. We are a multidisciplinary team focused on groundbreaking impacts in the areas of robotics control, agentic AI, human-robot and robot-robot teaming, assured autonomy, and novel robot design. Our team is committed to excellence in research and exploratory development that has real-world impact. Successful members of our team tend to be creative problem solvers who are comfortable working at the edge of their comfort zone. As a member of our team, your primary responsibility will be developing and integrating robotics systems, hardware, and software to address relevant challenges. You will team with APL researchers to advance our research vision within the broader scope of intelligent systems for applications of national importance. Current research areas include robot adaptive perception and reasoning, trajectory planning and advanced control, enhanced mobility, novel robotic systems, human-machine teaming, multi-agent coordination, and safe and assured autonomy behaviors. Depending on your expertise, you will develop and implement control algorithms and AI techniques, support experimentation in operational environments, design and fabricate bespoke robots and mechanisms, and integrate robotic systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or related field with a focus on robotics.
2+ years of experience working with design, integration, test & evaluation, hardware development, or software development for robotic systems.
Proven ability in solving engineering problems and identifying possible solutions.
Willing and able to travel to support field experiments in operationally-relevant test exercises.
Able to obtain a Secret security clearance.
U.S. citizenship.

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or related field with a focus on robotics.
Strong software development skills, particularly experience with ROS2.
Active Secret or Top Secret security clearance.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

Developing and integrating robotics systems, hardware, and software to address relevant challenges.
Teaming with APL researchers to advance our research vision within the broader scope of intelligent systems for applications of national importance.
Developing and implementing control algorithms and AI techniques.
Supporting experimentation in operational environments.
Designing and fabricating bespoke robots and mechanisms.
Integrating robotic systems.