Robotics Engineer

Rex.zone 

📍 United States, United States 🇺🇸

full-time
mid-level
30
remote
Posted —

Key Skills

ROSPythonC++SLAMLiDAR

Industry

RoboticsConsumer Electronics

Job Description

Robotics Jobs Colombia — Robotics Engineer (Remote, Full-Time)

Rex.zone is hiring a mid-senior Robotics Engineer to design, build, and validate autonomy capabilities for robotic platforms in a distributed, simulation-first environment. You will work across perception and planning pipelines, ROS-based integration, and simulation-to-real validation, while supporting data-centric iteration that improves training data quality and autonomy reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Own robotics software components across perception, localization, mapping, planning, and control
  • Build and maintain ROS/ROS2 nodes, message interfaces, and tooling for repeatable experiments
  • Implement and tune SLAM and sensor fusion stacks (camera, LiDAR, IMU, GPS)
  • Develop simulation-to-real validation: scenario generation, regression tests, KPI tracking
  • Design data collection plans; curate datasets for computer vision annotation and sensor labeling
  • Define labeling instructions, sampling strategies, and acceptance criteria; run QA evaluation loops
  • Partner on safety and reliability checks, including evaluation of HRI-related data where applicable
  • Contribute evaluation sets and prompt/model output review for robotics copilots when relevant

Required Qualifications

  • Mid-senior experience delivering robotics/autonomy software into production or field testing
  • Strong Python and C++ with debugging, profiling, and software quality practices
  • Experience with ROS/ROS2 and distributed robotic systems
  • Hands-on SLAM, localization, mapping, and state estimation
  • Experience with motion planning and trajectory optimization or sampling-based planning
  • Ability to design robust validation plans, interpret metrics, and drive measurable improvements

Preferred Qualifications

  • Scenario-based testing and large-scale simulation (e.g., Gazebo/Isaac Sim)
  • MLOps/data ops exposure: dataset versioning and annotation workflow management
  • RL/IL/policy evaluation experience; LLM evaluation or RLHF-style preference evaluation a plus

Compensation

Hourly rate: $30–$50/hr (USD).

Remote full-time role.