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Robotics Software Engineer, Vision-Language Reasoning & Behaviors
Irvine, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years building software that runs on real robots.
- Education
- MS in robotics, computer science, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Develops and deploys visual reasoning, inspection, and robot behavior systems, integrating on-edge vision-language inference into real-world robot workflows.
What you'll do
- Develop visual reasoning and inspection algorithms and pipelines for real-world deployment.
- Build reusable inspection and robot behavior primitives.
- Integrate on-edge vision-language inference and robot reasoning into behavior loops and mission workflows.
What they ask for
- MS in robotics, computer science, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.
- Strong C++ and Python, with hands-on ROS 2 experience designing nodes and systems that ship.
- Working knowledge of behavior trees and computer vision.
- Experience integrating learned models into a robotics system.
Nice to have
- Experience with open-vocabulary detection or visual grounding with VLMs on robots.
- GPU inference optimization on embedded hardware (TensorRT, quantization, ONNX), thermal imaging or anomaly detection, or deployments on legged platforms in industrial environments.
Tools
C++, Python, ROS 2, TensorRT, ONNX
AI focus
Integrates on-edge vision-language inference and learned models into robot behavior and mission workflows; develops visual reasoning and inspection systems.
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