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by osterwood 4668 days ago
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 (http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/darpa-...)

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 & 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, & power infrastructure inside our large payloads and platforms - Design test rigs and breadboards for products under development and for production acceptance testing

Please contact my username @carnegierobotics.com