Carnegie Robotics -- Pittsburgh, PA -- Local -- Full Time -- US persons only
We are a 3 year-old spin-out of Carnegie Mellon and have 25 employees. Most employees are seasoned hardware and software engineers and we push hard. Some of our work is related to landmine/IED detection robots, other work is related to smart sensors (cameras, lasers and various combinations). We have both research projects in a variety of robotic sensor areas as well as production efforts underway.
One of our sensors was recently selected to be the sensor head for the upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge (<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/darpa-unveils-atlas-drc-robot" >)
We are hiring for the following roles, each includes a brief description of the work you would be doing:
 Junior Mechanical Engineer 
- Mentored by our senior mechanical engineers
- Lots of CAD work (SolidWorks) and designing everything from rugged housings to drivetrains to test fixtures.  
- Lots of 3 axis and 5 axis machined part design.  Some weldment and sheet metal parts design.
- Assist with testing of mechanical components
 Embedded Software (junior or senior) 
- Work on low level control loops for hardware
- Perception &amp; planning logic
- We have software on everything from Atmel microcontrollers to Atom based computers to rugged i7 computers to GPUs to FPGAs
 FPGA Programmer 
- Accelerate our smart sensor development efforts
- Bring new stereo and computer vision algorithms to FPGAs inside our existing and upcoming products
 System Electrical Engineer 
- Design control, data, &amp; power infrastructure inside our large payloads and platforms
- Design test rigs and breadboards for products under development and for production acceptance testing
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