Vetted Gazebo Professionals

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on depth across simulation (Isaac Sim, Gazebo, Webots), ROS/ROS2 integration, and real-time embedded control. Led an end-to-end quadruped (12-motor) Isaac Sim build from Fusion 360 CAD-to-URDF through physics tuning to achieve a stable walking gait, and optimized a 5-servo arm by cutting IK compute time by 60%+ using lookup tables to eliminate jitter.”

“Recent UC Riverside master’s graduate focused on uncertainty-aware imitation learning for indoor robot navigation, building a full ROS 2 Humble stack (perception, learned policy, uncertainty estimation) with adaptive speed control. Demonstrated strong real-time robotics debugging and systems skills, achieving 92% autonomous navigation success across 100 trials and improving reliability through uncertainty calibration and SLAM/loop-closure optimization.”

“Robotics software engineer who led system design for an Autonomous Trash Collecting ASV presented at the IEEE ICRA 2025 “Robots in the Wild” workshop, integrating YOLOv8-based perception with ROS autonomy logic to detour for trash while preserving a scientific survey mission. Also built ROS2 UAV capabilities combining ArUco detection, RTAB-Map SLAM, and PX4 integration, with strong simulation (Gazebo/VTD/MSC Adams) and CI/CD QA automation experience.”

“Robotics software engineer at Earthwise building a full ROS2 Humble warehouse AMR stack for bin picking—owning perception (Livox/Orbbec/RPLidar fusion + calibration), Nav2 navigation with custom planners/behavior trees, and application-layer nodes (barcode scanning, safety monitoring, web HMI). Demonstrated strong real-world debugging and performance tuning (sub-cm AprilTag docking; ~80% reduction in localization failures) plus solid simulation/CI practices (Gazebo + Docker + GitHub Actions).”

“Robotics software engineer (2 years) at a startup building a universal fleet management system, owning core integrations and real-time data pipelines for heterogeneous AMR/AGV fleets. Implemented Kalman-filter-based collision prediction integrating RTLS for human-driven forklifts, built MQTT microservices aligned with VDA5050, and is now architecting a PostGIS-backed path-planning service for dynamic, traffic-aware routing with future ML optimization.”

“Robotics/ML candidate building an individual pedestrian trajectory forecasting system by adapting a GAN-style Social-GN training architecture from LSTM to a transformer-based AgentFormer design. Also has hands-on embedded robotics experience debugging lane-following behavior on a JetBot by tuning PID control, and uses Docker for reproducible training environments.”

“Robotics software engineer with multi-robot perception and ROS integration experience, including work on CoLoc-Net improving global visual descriptors (DINOv2-SALAD style) and training a metric head for scale-aware 3D pose/odometry with a UKF backend. Built a ROS node/GUI to synchronize monocular vision and radar outputs at ITRI, and independently created a custom camera driver to enable reliable image sharing across AgileX Limo robots under real hardware constraints.”

“Robotics software architect who built an automated pick-and-place palletizing prototype at BLACK-I-ROBOTICS, spanning perception (multi-RealSense fusion, segmentation, 6D pose, ICP), GPU-accelerated motion planning (MoveIt 2 + NVIDIA CuRobo), grasp generation, and safety (human detection + safe mode). Also brings cloud/CI/CD depth from VERIDIX AI (AWS Cognito/Lambda/ECS and CodePipeline stack) and demonstrated strong debugging chops by reducing outdoor rover EKF drift to ~5 cm via Allan variance-based IMU tuning.”

“Robotics software engineer who led the full perception/manipulation/planning stack for an autonomous watermelon-harvesting robot, including ripe-vs-unripe instance segmentation deployed on Jetson AGX Orin with TensorRT and quantization. Deep ROS 2 experience (custom ZEDx mask driver, LiDAR+stereo fusion, MoveIt 2/Nav2/ros2_control) and proven real-time optimization—cut latency ~40% and achieved consistent 7-second pick cycles in outdoor field conditions.”

“Robotics/Perception Software Engineer at Berkshire Grey who built and hardened a production ROS-based perception + supervision stack for autonomous trailer-unloading robots (RGB-D + LiDAR), including grasp/geometry estimation and segmentation. Diagnosed real-time behavior issues by instrumenting ROS pipelines, then implemented runtime RANSAC-based compensation for LiDAR yaw bias and TF-window validation; also supports containerized deployment on Kubernetes and is actively porting the system from ROS1 to ROS2.”

“Robotics software engineer who built a full LiDAR SLAM pipeline from scratch in C++ (ICP, pose graph optimization, loop closures) and validated it quantitatively against ground-truth datasets. Extensive ROS2 experience from academics and an internship building a localization system, plus practical deployment work using Docker across x64 and ARM edge devices; also trained RL policies for TurtleBots in Gazebo.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 experience building perception-driven navigation for AMRs, integrating YOLO11 + Depth Anything V2 and multi-sensor fusion (LiDAR/RGB-D/IMU) to boost pose accuracy by 30%. Strong in real-time debugging and edge deployment on NVIDIA Jetson (ONNX/CUDA), plus cloud-enabled telemetry (Azure) and simulation-driven testing (Isaac Sim) that cut physical test cycles by 25%.”

“Robotics software candidate whose thesis focused on multi-robot warehouse coordination using MAPPO reinforcement learning, trained in simulation (LBF environment, Isaac Sim/RViz) and deployed onto three real-time robots. Built custom ROS 2 Humble nodes for multi-robot control with namespaces, TF broadcasting, and an RL pipeline integrating LiDAR odometry and camera observations.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience building Visual-Inertial SLAM and ROS2 sensor-fusion pipelines for autonomous warehouse forklifts (ArcBest), including rigorous calibration (AprilTags, Allan variance, temporal sync) and recovery features like pose injection. Also implemented RL-based local planning at RollNDrive using Isaac Sim with domain randomization to bridge sim-to-real, improving real-world navigation success back to ~90% after initial deployment.”

“Robotics software engineer with a Master’s in Robotics who built a digital twin of an excavator by creating a high-fidelity URDF (kinematics, joint limits, inertial properties) to stress-test controllers near saturation/limit conditions using ROS2 + MoveIt. Has hands-on ROS/ROS2 experience building perception (AprilTag/OpenCV) and sensor interface nodes (IMU/encoders/CAN), plus data-driven debugging and SLAM tuning for GPS-denied navigation using ROS bags and loop-closure validation.”

“Software engineer with robotics and data-platform experience from CVS Health, spanning Java/Spring Boot microservices, secure APIs, React dashboards, and Snowflake/SSIS ETL optimization. Hands-on ROS 2 developer who built real-time LiDAR obstacle-detection nodes, improved SLAM performance, and coordinated multi-robot communication using DDS, with simulation/testing via Gazebo and CI/CD deployments using Docker and Jenkins.”

“Robotics software engineer with a Master’s thesis building an end-to-end monocular-vision pick-and-place controller for construction use cases on TurtleBot3 + OpenManipulator, spanning synthetic data creation, transfer learning, simulation in Gazebo, and real-robot deployment. Leveraged ROS distributed architecture to run two heavy AI models across networked GPUs to achieve usable real-time performance, and has production CI/CD experience as a Senior Software Engineer in AI/analytics.”

“Robotics engineer who built a smart campus tour robot on a Kobuki Turtlebot using ROS 1, implementing a full navigation stack (semantic world model, A* planner, tour executor, path follower) and integrating SLAM (gmapping) plus a hybrid reactive safety controller. Experienced taking systems from Gazebo simulation to real hardware, including extensive real-world debugging and Docker-based development to handle ROS/Ubuntu version constraints; planning a move to ROS 2 on Turtlebot 4.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on hard real-time autonomy for legged robots, building a quadruped navigation stack that combines vision SLAM with MPC and maintains a deterministic 500Hz control loop. Deep performance optimization experience across CUDA (sub-2ms perception latency), ROS 2/DDS real-time tuning, and motion planning (cut 500ms spikes to sub-5ms). Also designed distributed ROS 2 + Zenoh communications between quadrupeds and aerial drones and validated robustness under lossy wireless conditions.”

“Robotics software engineer leading a GNSS localization effort that fuses GPS, wheel encoders, and camera data via a Kalman filter with robust sensor rejection. Has built ROS/ROS 2 packages (including GPS waypoint following and obstacle avoidance) and has field-tuned motion planning for an autonomous robot operating around penguins in Antarctica, plus handled Docker deployment on NVIDIA Jetson (ARM) systems.”

“Robotics software engineer who built and deployed a full custom ROS navigation stack (global/local planners) for a TurtleBot3 reconnaissance robot, validated in Gazebo and on real hardware. Has hands-on experience customizing MoveBase for an autonomous warehouse mobile robot internship and optimizing multi-robot ROS communications by pruning and throttling high-volume sensor streams, plus CI/CD automation via Bitbucket Pipelines and Docker.”