Robotics Engineer

KBR•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

The Intelligent Robotics Group (irg.arc.nasa.gov) conducts aggressive and focused research and development for robot missions on Earth and in space. This research and development supports a wide variety of NASA and non-NASA customers through direct technology delivery, field testing (in extreme environments and on the International Space Station), and deployment. Key work areas include autonomy, navigation, perception, and robot user interfaces. This position is for a full-time robotics engineer to develop software systems for future lunar rovers.

Requirements

PhD in Computer Science or Robotics
Strong background and experience in Linux-based software development (C, C++, and/or Java)
Agile development experience
U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
Strong background in robotics, computer vision, and distributed systems
Strong software development experience with C/C++ and GNU tools under Linux
Experience with robot perception, guidance, navigation, and/or planning

Nice To Haves

Embedded systems
Real-time motion control
3D environment modeling for obstacle avoidance and rendezvous
Robotic navigation
Fault diagnosis and recovery
Cameras and 3D depth sensors
Sensor characterization and calibration
Extended Kalman filters
Visual pose estimation, including optical flow, feature-based approaches, and SLAM
Pose estimation sensor fusion: integrating asynchronous data sources, IMU data, and landmark information
ROS (Robot Operating System) framework
DDS (Data Distribution System) networking middleware
Robust communication over unreliable wireless networks
cFS (core Flight Software)