Vetted Gazebo Professionals

“Highly experienced robotics software engineer building ROS/ROS2 systems for fleets of autonomous mobile robots (Clearpath Jackal/Husky and custom platforms), spanning localization, navigation, and multi-robot coordination. Has published work at ICRA (including RL-based local planning and heterogeneous robot coordination via a ROS-to-ZMQ bridge) and maintains open-source ROS modules, with strong simulation, debugging, and CI/CD practices.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 experience who helped build an autonomous 5-DOF robotic arm that plays Backgammon, owning perception (OpenCV) and game-logic while adding robustness features like lighting tolerance and auto-calibration. Also worked on a Raspberry Pi/LiDAR car project, improving mapping accuracy through data-logged calibration and contributing to multi-robot collision-avoidance coordination via a server-based pub/sub system.”

“Masters capstone lead for a search-and-rescue rover that maps earthquake-affected environments using ROS2, SLAM (Cartographer), Nav2, and computer vision (OpenCV/ArUco). Served as both project manager and systems/architecture integrator, debugging IMU-driven navigation issues via RViz and implementing an A*-based planning workaround; also designed a supervisor/robot-side architecture to scale toward multi-robot coordination.”

“Robotics engineer/researcher from Stanford’s Assistive Robotics and Manipulation Lab who built a custom tactile-sensing gripper system and ROS 2 data pipeline to classify the number of thin material layers grasped using a transformer-based model. Has internship experience at Motiv Space Systems building ROS 2 hardware abstractions for BLDC motor dynamics simulation, plus hands-on SLAM and manipulation work in Gazebo/MoveIt-based projects.”

“Robotics software candidate with hands-on experience building controllers for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, including dual-PID control in Python with state-space modeling and a planned path to LQR. Developed ROS nodes for odometry-based localization, waypoint planning, and control command publishing, validated through a custom Gazebo/ROS simulation workflow with control-metric-driven testing. Also worked on F1Tenth simulation and scan-matching localization (PL-ICP), with additional cloud deployment experience using Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD.”

“Robotics/embedded engineer with hands-on experience building real-time control systems on RP2040 (hydroponics automation, 1-DOF helicopter stabilization) and full ROS 2 navigation stacks in simulation (URDF, TF, PID, A* in RViz/Gazebo). Demonstrates strong low-level protocol work (timing-sensitive one-wire in C) and rigorous debugging across hardware and software using UART instrumentation and oscilloscope verification, plus reproducible workflows with Docker and CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab, incl. Sandia National Labs).”

“Robotics engineer who helped bootstrap Meta’s humanoid robotics effort, building simulation training and deployment infrastructure for vision-language-action (VLA) models. Evaluated multiple physics backends (Bullet, MuJoCo, Isaac, internal) to minimize sim-to-real gap and addressed control-loop frequency mismatches via sequence optimization/MPC-like approaches and trajectory-output modifications. Published research that contributed a new addition to ROS 2 and has built ROS2 node stacks spanning control, perception, teleop, tactile sensing, and imaging.”

“Robotics software engineer/research lead building an off-road mobile base, owning system integration across mechanical/electrical/embedded and developing controls + motion planning deployed from simulation to hardware with ROS 2/ROS 2 Control. Has deep ROS 2 experience (NAV2, MoveIt) and built a GridMap-based off-road elevation-to-traversability mapping stack using nonlinear optimization; also tuned real robots using Vicon and developed a quadcopter geometric/PID controller.”

“Robotics-focused engineer with ROS 2 experience who has built and debugged real-time, distributed control/orchestration systems under production-like latency and safety constraints. Led platform changes at Persona for a real-time verification orchestration system using deterministic state machines and async workers, and has hands-on experience stabilizing multi-robot navigation/SLAM behavior using rosbag, RViz, and stress testing in simulation (Gazebo).”

“Robotics software engineer (master’s student) who placed 3rd in the CMU VLA challenge and presented at IROS, building an LLM-powered language system (Gemini 2.5) for mobile-robot scene Q&A and language-based navigation. Hands-on ROS1/ROS2 experience including ros2_control + PILZ planning for a KUKA arm, plus simulation (Gazebo) and containerized submissions with Docker.”

“Robotics architect intern/new-grad focused on warehouse AMRs, building ROS2 sensor-fusion and SLAM stacks (FastSLAM-style particle filter) and validating in Gazebo with ground-truth metrics. Also interned at ASML debugging real-time in-vacuum robot behavior via Python state-machine telemetry scripts, identifying a firmware driver issue impacting throughput.”

“Robotics software engineer with Stanford coursework and Georgia Tech research experience, focused on end-to-end autonomy for mobile manipulation and real-time planning under uncertainty. Built a ROS 2 LoCoBot system combining Gemini speech-to-text, YOLO-based RGB-D perception, navigation, and grasping with robust synchronization/TF fixes, and developed an information-theoretic UGV planner for radiological source localization validated via Monte Carlo simulation.”

“Robotics software engineering intern at Bell Labs who overhauled indoor mobile robot localization in a ROS 2 stack, combining EKF + particle filtering with a neural network to handle BLE multipath disturbances. Delivered a major accuracy gain (~50 cm to sub-20 cm), earned a company Innovation award, published a paper, and saw the approach adopted across the company’s robot fleet.”