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Nominal · 1 month ago

Roboticist In Residence

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

Nominal is building the software infrastructure for advanced hardware systems including spacecraft and autonomous vehicles. As a Roboticist-in-Residence, you will leverage your robotics expertise to integrate robotic systems with Nominal Connect, support customer deployments, and influence product direction.

Information TechnologySaaSSoftware

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Own Autonomy Integration: Interface robotic systems with Nominal Connect—CAN bus, cameras, control loops, and autonomy stack

Perception & RL Tooling: Build pipelines within Nominal Connect to support vision-based navigation, object detection, and real-time feedback into reinforcement learning loops

Sim & Visualize: Integrate simulation and visualization environments into Nominal Connect—including tools like Mujoco, Isaac Gym, and Rerun—to streamline validation workflows

Support Customers: Deploy on-site with autonomy teams and test operators to integrate with their robots and support missions using Nominal Connect as the foundation

Build Reusable Interfaces: Develop general-purpose modules in Nominal Connect for handling CAN, video, telemetry, and actuator data across platforms

Guide Product Direction: Influence Connect’s roadmap with insights from field deployments and robotic system users

Qualification

Robotic system integrationCAN bus debuggingComputer visionReinforcement learningSimulation environmentsNominal ConnectPythonC++RustDebugging mindsetTooling savvy

Required

Experienced Roboticist: You've built and deployed robotic systems—whether in research, startups, or field operations

CAN Bus Expert: Comfortable debugging low-level communications and writing interfaces for robotic subsystems

Computer Vision Pro: Experience with perception pipelines—monocular/stereo VO, object tracking, pose estimation, etc

RL + Sim Enthusiast: Familiar with reinforcement learning workflows and simulation environments—ideally integrated through Nominal Connect and tools like Mujoco or Isaac Gym

Debugging Mindset: Thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where you debug cross-disciplinary systems

Tooling Savvy: Hands-on with Nominal Connect and visual tooling like Rerun or Foxglove for robotics telemetry and autonomy stack debugging

Technical Polyglot: Proficient in Python, with working knowledge of C++ or Rust when needed