About the job
Intrinsic Robotics, a pioneering venture of Alphabet, is dedicated to transforming the landscape of industrial robotics. Our team harnesses advancements in AI, perception, and simulation to push the boundaries of what industrial robotics can achieve, with software and data as the driving force.
Our mission is to make industrial robotics intelligent, accessible, and user-friendly for millions of businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers across the globe. We are a vibrant team of engineers, roboticists, designers, and technologists, united by a passion for unlocking the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics.
Role Overview
As a Robotics Software Engineer specializing in Sensor-Based Control and Robot Learning, you will be at the forefront of developing and integrating cutting-edge control strategies and Machine Learning (ML) policies within Intrinsic's Realtime Robot Control framework. Your work will involve deploying visual servoing and force-control skills in real-world manufacturing environments, specifically focusing on dexterous, contact-rich assembly tasks. You will manage the complete development lifecycle, including designing controllers, ensuring seamless hardware integration, conducting extensive experiments, and optimizing performance metrics to adhere to stringent industrial standards.
Contributions to Our Mission
- Develop visual servoing and interaction control loops for complex insertion and assembly tasks.
- Implement advanced sensor fusion and time-synchronization algorithms for multi-modal robot control.
- Own and execute the full experimentation cycle, routinely conducting trials on industrial hardware to assess algorithmic adjustments and gather high-quality training data.
- Design and construct modular components for our kinematics, state estimation, and control systems to enhance robustness in contact-rich scenarios.
- Analyze logs and telemetry from various sensor inputs to pinpoint failure modes and guide the technical roadmap.
- Optimize real-time execution frameworks for learned manipulation models within the Intrinsic platform.

