Key Responsibilities:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Leadership & Systems Integration
- Lead end-to-end software architecture for mobile robotics platforms — perception, localization/SLAM, navigation, motion control, and safety systems.
- Own design decisions around ROS/ROS 2 middleware, sensor fusion pipelines, and modular hardware abstraction layers.
- Act as technical lead for fleet-level coordination and communication interfaces (REST, MQTT, CAN).
- Set technical direction and coding/architecture standards for the team; review designs and code from other engineers.

Physical AI, VLA/VLM & Perception
- Drive integration of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) and Vision-Language Model (VLM) capabilities into the autonomy stack for tasks such as semantic scene understanding, instruction-conditioned navigation, and object/task-level reasoning.
- Own the Visual SLAM pipeline (e.g., ORB-SLAM, VINS, RTAB-Map or equivalent) for robust localization and mapping across energetic, GPS-denied, and visually repetitive warehouse/industrial environments.
- Evaluate, fine-tune,



and productionize foundation-model-based perception and reasoning components, balancing on-robot compute constraints with model accuracy and latency.
- Integrate and validate AI/ML models in production for localization, obstacle detection, and object/pallet identification.

Deployment & Field Reliability
- Take direct ownership of resolving deployment challenges encountered during customer site rollouts — environmental edge cases, network/connectivity constraints, sensor degradation, and unexpected operational scenarios.
- Drive the verification & validation (V&V;) strategy for autonomous robot behavior across simulated and real environments prior to and during deployment.
- Design for graceful failure handling and energy-aware shutdown logic to improve field reliability and serviceability.

Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with product managers and hardware teams to translate customer requirements i

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