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Senior Robotics Manipulation Engineer @ Iron Ox Full Time
About Us
Iron Ox is reimagining the modern farm, utilizing robotics and AI to grow fresh, consistent, and responsibly farmed produce for everyone. Our experienced team of growers, plant scientists, engineers, and innovators are passionate about deeply understanding and developing this new wave of technology to feed an ever-growing population.
Our mission at Iron Ox is dedicated to addressing some of the most significant issues in food security, now and in the future. We’re focused on sustainable, scalable food production for a changing climate and an ever-growing population.
As a Senior Robotics Manipulation Engineer, you will work on a variety of automation projects for our greenhouses involving both industrial robotics and manipulation research. As part of the team, you will work closely with other roboticists, engineers, plant scientists, and growers to implement production-ready robotic systems. Applications include moving plants between grow modules, detecting and harvesting ripe fruit (such as berries, tomatoes, and bell peppers), and trimming and harvesting leafy greens for packaging.
We are looking for experienced roboticists who can work with Hardware/Software teams to write robotics software that moves projects towards robust production. Depending on your background, this could include writing standard industrial robotics code on a teach pendant, using ROS to ingest sensor data and perform complex manipulation tasks, analyzing sensor data to produce semantic understanding for manipulation problems, and operating at a systems level to integrate across hardware and software systems. The ideal candidate will have a broad background in manipulation as well as a deeper understanding of one or more sub-areas.
What You’ll Be Doing
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- Take ownership and deliver robotic systems from prototype to production
- Work cross-functionally with other teams to ensure a productive system beyond just the robot software
- Work with real plants, real data, and real robots
- Provide input to scope requirements and feasibility for future robotic applications
- Define, manage, debug, and help maintain the systems that you bring to production in the greenhouses
- Help build an amazing robotics team by participating in our hiring process
What You’ll Bring
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- 5+ years of experience writing robotics software
- Experience working in Linux environments
- Experience working in C++ and Python
- Broad robotics manipulation experience, including perception, planning, grasping, sensor processing, and/or motion control
- Deep experience in one of the following sub-areas: industrial robotic integration, including vision applications; Fanuc experience a plus, planning and controls, perception for manipulation, sensor-based manipulation, manipulation of delicate objects
- Excellent collaborative, communication, and documentation skills
- BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering or a related field (MS or PhD preferred)
- Ability to occasionally commute to our offices in San Carlos and Gilroy to work on physical robots
Nice-to-Haves
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- You have shipped a product
- Experience with software engineering tools and best practices in production
- Experience with ROS
- Experience with data science / ML
- Experience with basic computer vision
- An interest in agriculture
What We Offer
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- Iron Ox is a small startup with a big dream. You’ll be a part of a team founded on transparency, creativity, and impact on our mission to feed people
- We’re a tight-knit group that likes to work hard while also having fun
- We offer medical, dental, vision and 401k
We are a mission-driven and well-funded startup, backed by the likes of YCombinator, Pathbreaker Ventures, R7, and Crosslink Capital. We are headquartered in San Carlos, CA with our primary production greenhouse facility located in Gilroy, CA and Lockhart, TX.
Iron Ox is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Please note: Iron Ox does not accept unsolicited resumes from staffing vendors, including recruitment agencies and/or search firms. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Iron Ox employees, or any other company location. Any submittals without a prior signed agreement will become property of Iron Ox.
U.S. E-Verify Notice: Iron Ox participates in E-Verify in the United States. Iron Ox will provide the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.