Vetted Robotics Professionals

“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 engineer with a 2024 internship building an end-to-end software stack for an autonomous humanoid robot that follows natural-language audio commands to make coffee and deliver snacks, including perception (OpenCV), mapping, and ROS Navigation. Also contributing to a robotics foundation model effort by building data preprocessing pipelines using GroundingDINO and SAM2, and has multi-robot coordination experience with algorithms designed to handle real-world communication drops.”

“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.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on autonomous surface vehicles, specializing in dynamic collision avoidance and regulation-compliant navigation. Extended ROS2 Nav2 by implementing a Velocity-Obstacle-based safety filter (as a DWA critic) and encoding COLREGs, plus built an end-to-end Gazebo+ArduPilot SITL stack and a ROS2 bridge translating Nav2 commands to ArduPilot for real-world deployment.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on real-time teleoperation and high-quality robot-learning data pipelines, including synchronized multimodal sensing (RGB-D, tactile, joint states) for Diffusion Policy training on a bimanual ALOHA robot. Strong ROS practitioner who debugs real-time control issues with ROS tooling and builds simulation environments in Isaac Lab and PyBullet; also packages data-collection stacks with Docker.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher with hands-on real2sim experience for deformable manipulation: led real-world data collection and diffusion policy deployment on an Aloha robot, then built a MuJoCo + Gaussian-splat digital twin with point-cloud alignment. Also brings 3 years of production software engineering experience, including Docker/CI/CD and a zero-downtime Blue-Green upgrade of a core API router, plus ROS/ROS2 work spanning autonomous vehicles and UR20 pick-and-place with MoveIt2.”

“AI engineer with robotics perception experience at Forterra, building and deploying moving-object/obstacle detection models into real-time robot pipelines. Addressed training crashes/latency via sub-batch training and optimizer tuning, and improved debugging using ROS/ROS2 tooling with 3D voxel visualization and color-coded validation.”

“UPenn robotics researcher who architected a real-time autonomous driving decision-making engine, integrating LSTM trajectory prediction with MPC in CARLA and adding conformal prediction to deliver 95% statistical safety guarantees under strict latency constraints. Also built and debugged an autonomous quadrotor stack with ESKF-based 6-DoF tracking and optimized A*/Dijkstra planning to eliminate latency-induced instability, with experience bridging heterogeneous simulation/control systems.”

“Robotics software engineer who led an end-to-end learning-based UAV controller project, addressing oscillation issues through simulation, gain tuning, and a shift to geometric control. Has ROS experience spanning UAV mocap-based perception and an autonomous driving stack (LiDAR, mapping, AMCL, controller), plus real-world distributed ROS communication over WiFi with performance troubleshooting.”

“Robotics/software engineer who deployed a Raspberry Pi computer-vision-controlled 3-axis platform at FuelCell Energy, improving screen-print alignment from >10mm to 0.01mm repeatability via encoder-based closed-loop PID control. Currently designing an AI-enabled hearing-aid accessory for the cocktail party problem using a multi-mic array, beamforming, and an edge-accelerated neural network with <10ms latency via shared-memory DSP integration.”

“Robotics software contributor with hands-on experience building a Gazebo/ROS(2) Mars rover simulation integrating LiDAR and image segmentation for autonomous navigation and SLAM (Nav2). Comfortable debugging low-level sim/model integration issues (URDF/XML) and building sensor-data pipelines, and has also shipped a real-world telemetry setup streaming vibration data over UDP with packet-loss mitigation.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience delivering autonomous pick-and-place: built a depth-camera perception pipeline for tiny (15–20mm) parts using YOLO+SAM segmentation feeding Open3D ICP/RANSAC pose estimation and validated it end-to-end with ABB YuMi/RobotStudio. Strong ROS 2 integrator (Nav2, SLAM Toolbox, MoveIt2, Behavior Trees) who has debugged real TurtleBot3 odometry/latency issues and redesigned system architecture to improve reliability.”

“Master’s-level candidate with an academic project portfolio, including ownership of a Python-based video game recommendation system using unsupervised clustering. Has hands-on experience designing the system approach and validating recommendation quality with test cases, plus teaching assistant experience instructing Git/GitHub workflows; limited exposure to Kubernetes, GitOps, and large-scale infrastructure.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on simulation-heavy development, recently building a 6-robot swarm in Gazebo with custom terrain and per-robot A* path planning while researching PSO-based swarm algorithms. Experienced with ROS 2 multi-node communication patterns and autonomous drone simulation using ArduPilot (ap_dds), with a track record of debugging real-time behavior issues through disciplined isolation and incremental testing.”

“Software Engineer at Armstrong Robotics building multithreaded C++ perception/planning/control software for robotic arms running commercial dishwashers deployed across multiple restaurant sites (up to ~2,000 dishes/day per installation). Strong in production operations: on-call debugging with deep logging/video analysis, rapid hotfixes, Datadog-based monitoring, and a Three.js calibration tool plus large regression test suite to de-risk live deployments.”

“Robotics software candidate who built a full MPC-based locomotion controller for the Unitree Go2 quadruped, outputting low-level torque commands. Demonstrated strong real-time optimization skills by profiling the control pipeline and cutting compute time to <5ms per tick, and is integrating the stack with ROS 2 plus MuJoCo/Pinocchio for closed-loop simulation and model linearization.”

“Robotics software engineer who built an end-to-end mobile manipulation platform (Franka Panda on a Clearpath Ridgeback) for a simulated-kitchen human-robot interaction study with natural speech commands, implemented in Python/ROS. Has hands-on experience integrating diverse sensors (RealSense, LiDAR, biosignals) with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Hugging Face) and fine-tuning GPT-Neo, plus simulation (Gazebo) and modern deployment practices (Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD).”

“Early-career robotics engineer who has integrated LLM/NLP command interfaces (OpenAI/LLaMA) into ROS-controlled industrial manipulators and built data-driven controls for underwater soft robotic actuators. Combines hands-on fabrication (balloon actuator with embedded copper traces) with sensor debugging (IMU/Aurora) and simulation work in Gazebo, with practical exposure to edge deployment constraints on Jetson Nano and model quantization.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 autonomy experience across F1TENTH and Turtlebot platforms, building planning/control behaviors (Pure Pursuit, Follow-the-Gap, emergency braking, PID wall following) and validating in Gazebo/RViz. Also integrated a custom curvature-based speed planning node into Autoware (with AWSIM), demonstrating practical autonomy stack integration and strong debugging of LiDAR pipelines.”

“University of Michigan MDP / Atombots lab robotics engineer leading perception and sensor integration for multi-agent quadruped wheel-legged robots. Implemented and optimized RTAB-Map SLAM on Jetson Nano using Unitree L2 LiDAR + Intel RealSense D435i, including custom ROS 2 synchronization and TF2 calibration work; now building Apriltag-based tracking for multiple micro-robots to support decentralized swarm behavior research.”

“Head of Robotics at Orbital Composites who built the full ROS-based software stack ("OrbOS") for multi-robot KUKA-arm 3D printing of carbon-fiber composite geometries. Deep in motion planning and real-time control—created a pipeline to turn underconstrained toolpaths into optimal joint trajectories at massive command scale, plus redundant safety gatekeeping and a 250Hz synchronized robot+extruder controller. Has operated in a technical-founder capacity for ~6 years and values an engineering culture of openness, honesty, accountability, and high ownership.”