Vetted Robot Operating System (ROS) Professionals

“Robotics engineer who built a 6-axis force-torque sensor system end-to-end at ROAM Lab, including electronics, low-level drivers, and ROS2 live inference with time-series deep learning (ultimately a 1D ResNet) to handle highly noisy, session-shifting signals. Also upgraded tactile manipulation models to time-series inputs by modifying long-standing ROS architectures, and has prior experience in defense (L3Harris) with production-grade testing and code review practices; published work: arxiv.org/abs/2410.03481.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience building a dual-arm (Kawasaki duAro) Cranfield assembly task-planning and motion-planning stack in ROS/MoveIt, using PDDL + behavior trees and OMPL for collision-free execution. Improved tight-tolerance insertions by integrating RGB-D visual servoing into the task planner loop, and also built an LLM-driven navigation pipeline with ORBSLAM3 for natural-language command parsing and real-time replanning.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience migrating a robotics project from ARM to AMD by building a Dockerized environment with PyTorch/CUDA dependencies, improving data processing and battery efficiency. Has integrated ROS 2 nodes for a Time-of-Flight camera and debugged motion-planning issues (tight-turn stopping) using data collection and iterative tuning; also built custom robots in Webots for sensor/actuator-driven behaviors.”

“Robotics engineer with capstone experience building an autonomous food-assembly robot arm, owning perception/deep learning (SAM2-based segmentation) and a model-based RL manipulation policy for deformable food items while also serving as project manager. As a robotics engineering intern at Salin247, optimized an autonomous farm vehicle perception stack to hit 20 FPS by cutting latency from 200ms+ to ~40ms using GPU acceleration (CUDA OpenCV, CuPy) and multiprocessing, and built ROS 2 nodes for real-time perception and streaming.”

“MSR robotics candidate who led a 4-person project building a ROS2 MoveIt wrapper for a Franka Emika arm and integrating a RealSense-based vision pipeline for color-based object tracking/sorting. Also building a quadruped with ROS on Raspberry Pi, bridging ROS commands through a motor driver to TTL-controlled motors, and expanding from Python ROS development into C++ for navigation/LiDAR/SLAM work on TurtleBot3.”

“Robotics software engineer who has built end-to-end pipelines spanning backend/data processing through model interfaces and hardware integration. Has hands-on ROS2 experience building Python nodes and debugging real-time behavior via profiling, publish-rate tuning, and latency fixes, plus experience standardizing multi-robot communication with QoS adjustments. Uses Gazebo simulation and Docker/CI/CD to catch integration issues early and speed iteration.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on real-time mapping and SLAM in unstructured environments, combining camera-based navigation, GTSAM/iSAM2 pose-graph optimization, and nvBlox ESDF mapping with strong real-time performance on both RTX 4070 and Jetson Orin. Has hands-on ROS 2 + Docker integration experience and has built Isaac Sim plugins/ROS 2 packages to make LIO-SAM work in simulation, plus work on decentralized multi-robot SLAM with heterogeneous LiDARs and edge map building.”

“Robotics software engineer who led localization/SLAM work on an autonomous indoor security drone operating in a pre-mapped environment. Implemented a robust localization strategy combining visual PnP loop closures with point-cloud ICP to mitigate issues like visual map aging, and uses ROS tooling (rosbag/TF/RViz) plus Gazebo and Docker for repeatable debugging, simulation, and development.”

“Robotics software candidate with hands-on experience building a self-balancing, Segway-like robotic ambulator by deriving and iteratively improving the full dynamics model (including bearing losses, BLDC back-EMF, and accurate COM estimation). Has practical ROS/ROS2 exposure (tf2, RViz, rosbag2, slam_toolbox) plus Gazebo/Simulink simulation and Turtlebot vision-based obstacle avoidance using ROS + MATLAB.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher at Stanford PDML Lab building VisualFT, a ROS2-based visual-tactile sensing system for compliant force-control guidance in acupressure/ultrasound-style manipulation. Also interned at Neocis (dental robotics) improving safety-critical collision detection using Bullet Physics with automated validation and CI (Jenkins/CDash).”