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About the Role
Andromeda is seeking an engineer to establish and lead the Mission Autonomy team, responsible for the robot's long-duration decision-making and daily orchestration. This role involves designing and building the Mission Autonomy architecture from scratch, utilizing frontier models and evaluation methods for training and deployment, and collaborating with other teams to integrate behaviors on the robot.
Responsibilities
- Design the system architecture for Mission Autonomy, shaping the roadmap.
- Prototype the Mission Autonomy loop in simulation to guide development decisions.
- Co-design and build simulation capabilities with the simulation engineer.
- Own technical direction and define contracts for other teams (autonomy, chatbot, perception, audio, platform).
- Shape action primitives, specifying requirements for underlying layers.
- Design for degradation, defining safe and legible behavior during system failures.
- Establish deployment patterns for safe iteration from simulation to robot.
- Build the evaluation system, defining benchmarking and metrics for mission completion and failure modes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building autonomous systems.
- Previous autonomy experience in areas such as self-driving, mobile robotics, warehouse robotics, field robotics, or similar.
- At least one deployment lifecycle experience from concept through deployment and operations.
- Experience with ROS 2, Nav2, and simulation tools (Isaac Sim, Gazebo, or MuJoCo).
- Awareness of safety-critical design principles for robots operating around people.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, C++, or Rust.
- Comfortable working across the stack, from high-level planning to low-level robot interfaces.
- Practical robotics experience, including hardware bring-up and sensor/actuator debugging.
- Strong communication and influence skills, especially when working across Australian teams.
- Able to steer system design, define interfaces and contracts, and write initial code.
Skills
- Autonomous systems
- Robotics
- Computer Science
- ROS 2
- Nav2
- Isaac Sim
- Gazebo
- MuJoCo
- Python
- C++
- Rust
- Planning
- Behavior
- Robot interfaces
- Hardware bring-up
- Sensor debugging
- Actuator debugging
- Communication
- Influence
- System design
- Interface definition
- Contract definition
- Mission autonomy systems
- LLM techniques
- Robotic task planning
- Orchestration
- Tool use
- Error recovery
- Simulation-based evaluation systems
- Benchmarks
- Scenario harnesses
- Metrics
- Failure taxonomies
- Reporting
- Robot planning architectures
- Behavior architectures
- Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL)
- Task-and-motion planning
- Behavior trees
- Finite-state machines
- Technical judgment
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Education Level
- MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000 to $240,000 USD
About the Company
- Andromeda is building the social intelligence layer for humanoid robots, enabling them to understand people, build relationships, and integrate into daily life.
- Our first robot, Abi, provides conversation and companionship in aged care and healthcare settings.
- We are scaling our technology to operate across thousands of real-world environments.
- We focus on tackling hard problems in robotics and AI to define human-robot interaction.
- Our values include Empathy, Play, Never Settle, Tenacity, and Unity.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.