Senior Software Engineer - Calibration, Localization & Mapping
Cosmic Robotics · Posted Nov 10, 2026
- San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Senior
- 5+ years
Lead design, development, and implementation of state estimation algorithms for mobile manipulation robots.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and integrate robust high-throughput low-latency state estimation, pose estimation, mapping, and reconstruction algorithms for real-world robotic systems
- Build simulation-based and on-robot evaluation
- Build and maintain algorithms and workflows for intrinsics and extrinsics sensor calibration as well as hand-eye calibration
- Translate business and operational requirements into well-scoped technical work packages and execution plans
- Collaborate cross-functionally with controls, platform, and hardware engineers to ensure system-level success
Requirements
- PhD or Master’s degree
- Nice to have: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Nice to have: production-grade ML models
- Nice to have: foundation models
- Nice to have: Isaac Sim