Lila Sciences
Engineer II/ Senior Engineer, Robotics Platform Evaluation
$94K–$158K
Cambridge, MA USA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Experience
- Professional experience required; no number of years specified.
About the job
Commission, integrate, and benchmark robotics platforms, producing comparable evaluations that guide platform adoption.
What you'll do
- Commission new hardware and integrate it with ROS2, Nav2, software, and infrastructure.
- Plan and run end-to-end tests across navigation, manipulation, perception, and controls; report comparable results.
- Improve shared evaluation frameworks and tooling, and flag integration issues, safety concerns, and limitations.
What they ask for
- Professional experience deploying robotics platforms in production, commercial, or applied R&D settings.
- Hands-on ROS2 and Nav2 experience in real deployments, not simulation alone.
- Experience with manipulation and pick-and-place, motion planning, grasp execution, and controls for robot arms or mobile bases.
- Experience integrating and calibrating camera or lidar perception pipelines; direct experience with AMRs/AGVs or 6 to 7 DoF arms, including grippers and end effectors.
Nice to have
- Experience evaluating multiple platforms or vendors, mobile manipulators, or standardized robot testing tools.
- Experience with Isaac Sim, Gazebo, or similar tools, or industrial, warehouse, logistics, or manufacturing automation.
Pay
$93,600 — $158,400 USD (base salary)
Tools
ROS2, Nav2, Isaac Sim, Gazebo
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