Group Lead Robotics Perception, Mapping & Navigation (human)

The role

You will own the technical roadmap for perception, mapping and navigation from research prototypes to production on real robots. You will build and lead a team of perception, SLAM and navigation engineers.

What you will do

• Own the technical roadmap for perception, mapping and navigation
• Hire, mentor, and support a team of perception, SLAM and navigation engineers
• Drive perception across multiple sensors including calibration, time synchronisation and sensor fusion
• Lead the development of SLAM, localisation and map management
• Own object detection, segmentation, pose estimation and scene representations
• Drive global and local path planning, obstacle avoidance, and navigation
• Ensure real-time requirements are met on embedded compute
• Work with the safety team to meet requirements for autonomous motion
• Build datasets, ground truth, KPIs and regression testing in simulation and on hardware
• Solve localisation failures, drift, degenerate environments or field edge cases

Required qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in robotics, computer science, electrical engineering or a related field
• 7+ years in robotics perception, SLAM or navigation
• 2+ years of technical leadership and deployments on real robots in production or field settings
• Deep knowledge of state estimation, sensor fusion and SLAM
• Strong background in 3D computer vision and learning-based perception
• Solid experience with motion planning and navigation stacks (e.g. ROS 2, Nav2, MoveIt)
• Experience with simulation tools (e.g. Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo) and sim-to-real transfer
• Strong C++ and Python
• Linux
• PyTorch
• Libraries such as GTSAM, Ceres, Open3D, PCL or OpenCV
• Strong leadership and communication skills

Nice to have

• German at B2 to C1

About the company

neura-robotics-gmbh