Senior II/ Staff Robotics Platform Evaluation Engineer
Cambridge, MA$136.8k - $217.9kfull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Senior II/Staff-level leader and hands-on engineer responsible for leading the Robotics Platform Evaluation team, defining evaluation methodology, building the test roadmap, and directly contributing to hardware setup and test execution for platform benchmarking against production baselines.
Responsibilities
- Manage and mentor 2 to 3 Robotics Platform Evaluation Engineers
- Set the evaluation roadmap and prioritize platforms and capabilities to test
- Define and maintain the team's evaluation methodology and shared tooling for comparability
- Own communication of findings, tradeoffs, and recommendations to the Associate Director and cross-functional stakeholders
- Commission new robotics platforms from unboxing through integration with our software stack and infrastructure
- Run test suites spanning navigation, manipulation, pick-and-place, perception, and controls
- Integrate platforms with ROS2 and Nav2, adapting drivers, configurations, and interfaces for each new robot
- Validate arm reachability and AMR maneuverability in Isaac Sim against models of lab environments before hardware testing
Qualifications
- Professional experience deploying robotics platforms in production, commercial, or applied R&D settings
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers on a hands-on hardware or robotics team
- Hands-on ROS2 and Nav2 experience in real deployments, not simulation alone
- Experience with manipulation and pick-and-place, including motion planning and grasp execution, plus controls for arms or mobile bases
- Direct experience with AMRs/AGVs, 6 to 7 DoF arms, grippers, and camera or lidar perception pipelines including calibration
- Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, or an equivalent simulation platform, for reachability or navigation validation
- Track record building a process, framework, or standard from scratch, and turning test results into decision-ready comparisons
Skills
Required:Robotics platform evaluation leadershipROS2 / Nav2Robotics hardware integrationManipulation and grasping
Benefits
- Full benefits for U.S. employees (medical, dental, vision; life and disability insurance; PTO; holidays; parental leave; educational assistance; commuter benefits; lunch program)
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