SLAM Engineer at PAL Robotics

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From Luca Marchionni via ros-users@

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

PAL Robotics is a robotics company developing humanoid service robots. Our
goal is to develop humanoids that can perform useful tasks in the real
world. We are a young and multidisciplinary team of highly motivated
engineers, that have successfully developed robots used for research in several universities around the world.

JOB DESCRIPTION

PAL Robotics is looking for a highly motivated research engineer in the area of SLAM and autonomous navigation. 

The selected individual will be responsible for developing, integrating and maintaining the autonomous navigation system 
on Pal Robotics humanoid robots both with wheels and legs. The robots are supposed
to be working in real environments and for this reason safety, robustness,
fault detection and recovery should be taken into account during the
project design and implementation process.
Primary duties:

   - Maintenance of the current PAL Robotics navigation system
   - Long term navigation  
   - Autonomous Localization in crowded environment by using laser, vision,
   wifi sensor fusion
   - People aware Path Planning and Trajectory Execution
   - SLAM extension to Multi-Mapping and Multi-Robot
   - Code QA through Unit Tests

Further duties:

   - Functional testing on simulation environment
   - Stress test in real environments

Mandatory Requirements

   - Master's degree in Computer Science/ Control / AI
   - Good C++ programming skills in Linux OS
   - Knowledge about SLAM algorithms
   - Proactive team working attitude
   - Good communication skills (at least in English)

Desired Requirements

   - Good knowledge of ROS
   - Experience with real robotic hardware
   - Experience with revision control systems (git)
   - Experience installing and configuring Ubuntu or any other Linux
   distribution.
   - Experience with 3D robotics simulation (Gazebo)

Job conditions

   - The team is located in Barcelona, Spain.
   - The salary will be evaluated according to the relevant experience of
   the candidate.

Contact details

If you're interested, please submit your resume to recruit@pal-robotics.com.
Please specify the job code JOB-2015-003 and job name in the email subject file.

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