Sensor Software Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Shanghai, China; on-site

Company

Developing next-generation commercial humanoid robots using AI-driven perception, reasoning, and dexterous manipulation.

What you will do

• Design and maintain C++ driver abstraction layers for RGB-D cameras, ToF sensors, LiDAR, high-rate IMUs, tactile arrays, and 6-axis force-torque sensors.
• Implement hardware-assisted time synchronization using IEEE 1588 PTP, gPTP, PPS, and hardware trigger lines.
• Develop low-latency, zero-copy pipelines for point clouds, video frames, and telemetry used by perception and reinforcement-learning control modules.
• Build sensor fault detection, health monitoring, automatic recovery, dynamic reconnection, and runtime diagnostic services.
• Optimize Linux driver stacks and define unified sensor abstractions, schemas, and ROS 2/DDS interfaces.
• Collaborate with hardware and calibration engineers on environmental stress validation, motion artifact testing, documentation, integration standards, and automated factory-floor testing.

Requirements

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience in sensor integration, low-level driver development, or robotics middleware.
• Mastery of C++17/20 and Python, including object-oriented system design, multithreading, and asynchronous I/O.
• Hands-on experience with sensor Linux drivers and V4L2, SocketCAN, SPI, I2C, MIPI-CSI2, GStreamer, and OpenCV.
• Experience implementing sub-microsecond hardware time synchronization with PTP, PPS, or external trigger pulses across cameras and IMUs.
• Knowledge of ROS 2/DDS publish-subscribe architecture, zero-copy shared-memory transport, and IPC optimization.
• Strong debugging skills with Wireshark, USB protocol analyzers, GDB, and Valgrind.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating multimodal sensor arrays on humanoid or quadruped robots.
• Experience with GPU acceleration for sensor-stream decoding and preprocessing using CUDA, Jetson VPI, or NvMedia.
• Experience with tactile sensor arrays, event-based cameras, or high-rate IMU filtering architectures.
• Comfort communicating technical topics in English with international teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an international engineering environment with headquarters collaboration.
• Participate in building a full-size humanoid robot platform from initial development through production.
• Work directly with physical robot platforms and cross-functional perception, state-estimation, hardware, and calibration teams.