(Published May 13th / Deadline June 15th, The Hague).
Are you passionate about working on cutting edge robotic and AI technologies to clean our beloved beaches? Then we can use your help!
DESCRIPTION
In the role of robotics software engineer at TechTics, you will be working on cutting edge technologies to let humans interact with robots to clean small litter on beaches. With your skills and experience in the development of robotics-related software components, you will contribute to the development of a unique beach robot. This role allows for implementing both existing research and your own novel ideas into usable ROS software components. You will join a young and ambitious team that has a strong drive to introduce new robotic and AI applications to shake up the status quo around how we keep beaches clean. We need your skills and enthusiasm to work on one of our current projects, which is part of an approved MIT R&D Collaboration Project and the Do IoT (5G) Fieldlab.
The project focuses on the development of a new version of our BeachBot (www.project.bb). Main development challenges include improving the control of the mechanical arm and gripper of the robot and creating custom tele-operating software, including a real-time federated learning feedback loop that enables live training of the AI model. Together, the new technology should enable an operator to intuitively control the robot and facilitate fast, precise pickups of objects the size of cigarette buds. The end goal is to speed up the learning process of the robot and its detection capabilities to create as autonomous as possible (semi) autonomous cleaning robot.
REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum of 1 year of working experience in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience with the development of embedded software for industrial robots.
- Experience with ROS (basic understanding).
- Experience with Linux-based microcontrollers (Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson Nano).
- Outstanding skills in embedded programming to connect the servo and stepper motors to the microcontroller.
- (Mobile) Networking architecture skills.
- Programming languages: Python, C++.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently and become a problem owner.
- Ability to define and realize your own goals.