Autonomy Engineer

Location: Folsom, California, USA

Annual salary: $160,000–$190,000

Company

Builds intelligent solar tracker, software, and robotic solutions for utility-scale solar power plants and clean energy infrastructure.

What you will do

• Develop and improve autonomy capabilities across perception, planning, and control.
• Deploy and validate autonomy systems on physical robots in field and test environments.
• Debug issues observed during real-world robotic operation and improve system reliability.
• Build and use simulation, log replay, data pipelines, and performance visualization to accelerate iteration.
• Collaborate with hardware, integration, and test teams to deliver system-level performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience developing software for robotics, autonomy, or related real-world systems.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of C, C++, Python, or Rust.
• Strong experience with Linux command-line environments, Git, Docker, and ROS2-based systems.
• Hands-on experience with physical robotic systems and complex system debugging.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with perception systems, including terrain classification, object detection and tracking, and semantic environment understanding.
• Experience with embedded inference optimization using CUDA, TensorRT, or ONNX Runtime.
• Experience designing control, path planning, multi-robot coordination, sensor fusion, localization, or state estimation systems.
• Experience with Gazebo, CI/CD, test-driven development, networking, and deployed outdoor field robotics.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on robotic systems operating at scale in real environments.
• Health care, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) participation with company matching.
• Company-paid holidays, unlimited paid time off, life and disability protection, and discretionary bonuses.
• Stock compensation may be available for eligible positions.