Vetted Gazebo Professionals

“Robotics/IoT engineer who deployed a fog-enabled real-time monitoring system (edge Raspberry Pi + MQTT + cloud logging) and validated it via an IEEE-indexed publication. Strong in autonomous navigation with ROS/Gazebo, SLAM/localization, and cross-layer debugging using timing/transform-delay correlation. Extends Python computer vision pipelines (YOLO + OpenCV/Albumentations) for custom datasets and weather-specific conditions.”

“Robotics software engineer with ~7 years of ROS/ROS2 experience spanning Mars rover simulation/navigation, robot arm integration (URDF/MoveIt/ros2_control), and medical magnetic actuation systems using RGB-D feedback. Built a 5-DOF CNC-like magnetic capsule navigation prototype end-to-end and has deep hands-on skill debugging real-time control issues (CAN, encoder timing, controller tuning) plus PLC/Modbus-to-ROS2 integration.”

“Robotics/AV-focused engineer who built an end-to-end gesture controller for a GEM e2 autonomous vehicle using YOLOv8 pose and ROS, including model training, ROS perception nodes, and a safety-oriented state machine (stop override + hold-to-register). Also has internship experience at Intramotev integrating LiDAR object detection via Redis pub/sub and performing sensor-frame calibration (roll/pitch correction using ground-plane normals), plus Dockerized deployments and Gazebo-based testing.”

“Robotics software engineer who built an open-source, real-time Cartesian controller for Universal Robots UR5/UR5e, targeting sub-mm accuracy at 500 Hz within ROS2/ros2_control. Demonstrates strong real-time debugging skills (timing profiling, singularity handling with Tikhonov regularization) and sim-to-real iteration using Gazebo/Isaac Sim plus physical hardware tuning; also has ROS1 experience building URDF/xacro and EKF configs for an underwater vehicle and has developed drone/robot packages.”

“Robotics software engineer who built a multi-agent dense warehouse mapping system in ROS 2, including LiDAR-camera fusion SLAM, timestamp-based synchronization, and DDS-based inter-robot pose/keyframe exchange under bandwidth constraints. Also applied Gaussian Splatting for selective photorealistic dense reconstruction and optimized real-time performance with node composition, bounded queues, and QoS tuning; experienced with Gazebo/CARLA/Unity simulation and Dockerized ROS 2 deployments.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on autonomy for fixed-wing and quadrotor UAVs, with deep experience in planning and advanced control (geometric control, trajectory optimization, nonlinear MPC). Recently designed an energy-aware NMPC for an autonomous glider, building a custom simulation/visualization framework to tune reward formulations. Has hands-on field deployment experience integrating ROS with PX4, optimizing node architecture for zero-copy performance, and building heterogeneous robot comms using Zenoh.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience building ROS2-based distributed multi-robot systems, including task allocation (distance cost matrix) and navigation using Nav2/DWA. Previously on Vicarious’s grasping team, implementing real-world box-picking with vacuum suction and force/torque sensing plus recovery behaviors. Also brings strong engineering hygiene with Gazebo simulation, Dockerized deployments across offices, and GitHub Actions CI/CD with unit/integration testing.”

“Robotics software engineer who built and owned core navigation components for a TurtleBot in ROS/ROS2 and Gazebo, including an RRT-based planner, waypoint-to-velocity motion planning, and PID trajectory tracking. Demonstrates strong real-time debugging skills (control-loop timing under CPU load), costmap/occupancy-grid tuning, and distributed ROS2 communication design using DDS/QoS, plus Docker and CI/CD automation experience from Keysight.”

“Robotics software engineer with ~7 years of ROS/ROS2 experience spanning dual-arm metal additive manufacturing and prior work on the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Developed in-house multi-arm collision/trajectory planning and achieved a major calibration improvement (from ~6 cm error to ~0.5 mm) via ICP point-cloud registration, with strong simulation/digital-twin, SLAM, and deployment (Docker/CI/CD) exposure.”

“Worked on Sophia the humanoid robot, building production animation pipelines and enhancing human-robot interaction via perception and behavior orchestration. Experienced in stabilizing noisy perception-driven state transitions and designing smooth, user-centered behavioral flows, collaborating closely with artists, animators, and experience designers to translate creative intent into measurable system behavior.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on real-time estimation/control and motion replanning, currently integrating a factor-graph-based estimation/control stack with sampling-based replanning in a ROS environment validated on both MuSHR hardware and MuJoCo simulation. Strong in distributed-system debugging (rosbags/logging, controlled test scenarios) and ROS performance patterns (nodelets, TF/TF2), with prior multi-robot experience from SSL RoboCup using custom UDP protocols.”

“Robotics software engineer with experience spanning embedded C++ control on microcontrollers and ROS/ROS2 production systems in automotive and marine robotics contexts (Harbinger Motors, Impossible Metals). Has deep hands-on experience debugging real-time image pipelines (DDS/QoS tuning, HIL stress testing) and building large automated test suites (1200+ tests) plus CI/CD (Dockerized Playwright tests on Jenkins).”

“Robotics/ADAS engineer who built an assistive feeding robot with reliable 3D mouth tracking (RealSense + MediaPipe) and ROS 2 integration to a WidowX250s arm, solving depth-noise, timing, and workspace/singularity issues for stable low-latency behavior. Also optimized a real-time lane-keeping controller at Hyundai using signal logging/replay, filtering (LPF/Kalman), and feedforward+PI tuning, with experience across SIL/HIL and CAN-based ECU integration.”

“Robotics software engineer with autonomous driving lab experience at UCSD, building and optimizing ROS2 perception and control pipelines (camera-based real-time object detection) with a strong focus on low-latency performance and robust message interfaces. Also brings production deployment experience from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, using Docker and Kubernetes for containerized environments and deployment pipelines.”

“Robotics-focused candidate with multiple university robotics projects (MTE 380, MTE 544) and ROS 2 (Humble/Galactic) experience spanning perception, navigation, and simulation. Built a vision-based line-following and retrieval robot using HSV filtering and homography, and debugged real-time PID overshoot issues via timestamping/rate-limiting. Comfortable with distributed ROS 2 architectures (Python perception + C++ control), DDS/QoS, Gazebo testing, and Dockerized deployment.”

“Robotics engineer/team lead who built an autonomous lunar rover for the NASA Lunabotics challenge, owning electrical systems, comms (UART/WiFi), and autonomy using RealSense + custom YOLO on a Jetson Orin Nano. Also has extensive ROS 2 experience, including creating a ROS2+Gazebo environment with ros2_control custom controllers for a large-scale additive manufacturing printer and research/thesis work in multi-robot coordination and robustness.”

“Autonomous marine surface algorithms engineer at CURLY contributing across the full autonomy stack in ROS 2 (C++/Python), from GNSS-IMU InEKF localization (100 Hz) and GTSAM object-level SLAM to semantic mapping and A*/Lie-group MPC planning/control. Strong focus on real-time optimization for constrained embedded hardware, with disciplined debugging/validation using ros2_tracing, rosbag2 replay, and Gazebo, and reproducible deployment via Docker/CI.”