Who we are:

We are a start-up based out of Bengaluru & Delhi NCR. We are engaged in development of next generation missions and technologies (NGM&T;) towards future warfare needs of the Indian defence forces. It is undertaking research towards enhancing persistence and autonomy for unmanned vehicles and robotic swarms. NRT’s product development portfolio includes a solar power stratospheric high altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) unmanned platform and an air/ground launched stand-off autonomous system.

Role Summary:

We’re hiring a Software Engineer to help build and ship production-grade perception systems for real robots operating in real environments. This role is hands-on, execution-focused, and tightly integrated with autonomy, hardware, and field operations (distributed systems, networking, and deployment tooling a plus). ROS/ROS2 and prior robotics application experience are required.

What You’ll Do:

- Build and ship perception pipelines deployed on physical robotic systems.
- Develop ROS/ROS2 nodes and distributed systems for real-time perception (publish/subscribe, services, actions, TF).
- Build reliable inter-process and inter-device communication for on-robot and offboard perception (DDS/ROS2 networking, bandwidth/latency considerations).
- Integrate and validate multi-sensor data (e.g., camera, LiDAR, radar, IMU, GPS) into reliable outputs for autonomy.
- Implement and improve perception components (sensor drivers/interfaces, calibration plumbing, synchronization, preprocessing, detections/tracks integration, quality checks).
- Debug and harden systems where sensor data is noisy, incomplete, and imperfect.
- Collaborate with autonomy, hardware, and field teams to deploy quickly and iterate based on real-world results.
- Set up, configure,



and debug SITL (Software-in-the-Loop) environments to validate perception outputs and message flows before on-robot testing.
- Improve runtime performance (latency/throughput), reliability, logging/telemetry, and maintainability.
- Package and deploy services using Docker on-robot systems.

Must-Have Qualifications:

- 2–3 years experience building real-world software, with exposure to robotics/perception systems.
- ROS/ROS2 is required (experience building and debugging ROS-based systems through projects, internships, or professional roles).
- Experience with SITL setup and debugging workflows (simulation, message flow validation, bag/replay, test scenarios).
- Prior robotics application experience is required (robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial automation, etc.) — this can include strong academic projects or internships, not only full-time roles.
- Robust programming skills in Python or C++.
- Working knowledge of Linux networking fundamentals (TCP/UDP, debugging connectivity issues, bandwidth/latency tradeoffs).
- Experience taking perception-related work from development to on-robot testing (field trials, lab testing, or production-like environments).
- Working understanding of sensor timing/synchronization, and comfortable doing system-level debugging in distributed robotics systems (network issues, time sync, message drops).




- Comfortable making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs to meet performance and deployment goals.
- Working knowledge of Docker for packaging and deploying robotics services.
- Able to work on-site.

Strongly Preferred:

- Exposure to sensor fusion, mapping, object detection/tracking, or multi-object tracking.
- Familiarity with common robotics/perception tooling (e.g., tf2, rosbag, rviz, image_transport, calibration pipelines).
- Familiarity with networking and communication for distributed robotics systems (multi-machine ROS/ROS2, DDS config, TCP/UDP basics, time sync).
- Familiarity with SITL setup, configuration, and debugging to speed iteration before field testing.
- Experience deploying to edge computers (e.g., NVIDIA Jetson) and optimizing runtime performance.
- Field deployment experience: diagnosing issues from logs, telemetry, and on-robot behavior in messy environments.
- Startup / rapid iteration background.

What Success Looks Like:

- Perception outputs that are reliable enough to support autonomy in real conditions (not just offline metrics).
- ROS/ROS2 perception stack that’s observable and debuggable (good logging, replay, tooling discipline).
- Faster iteration loop from field feedback to shipped improvements.

Interview Focus Areas:

- Python engineering fundamentals for robotics software
- ROS/ROS2 architecture and debugging (TF, timing, message flow, bags, multi-machine networking/communications, SITL workflows)
- Deployment fundamentals: Docker-based packaging and runtime debugging on Linux.
- Perception fundamentals + pragmatic production decisions
- Real-world deployment stories: failures, fixes, and what you learned

📌 Engineer I - Robotics (India)
🏢 Newspace
📍 India