Robotic Software Engineer

Job description

Texavie (texavie.com) is a fast growing startup with a mission to bring dexterity and tactile sensing to robotic hands, manipulators, humanoids, and physical AI, using our 5k1n technology. We are developing game-changing wearable and robotic systems that will be used to empower dexterity, accuracy, tactile sensing in humanoid and industrial robotic systems. Our 5k1n products provide a sense of touch to robots similar to human skin and help robots sense their environment, evaluate their grasp and be able to handle complex tasks, and manipulate objects with accuracy, repeatability and autonomy. We work with leading humanoid and robotic companies to bring our solutions to market, with significant potential for different industrial verticals including warehouse operations, advanced manufacturing, homecare, healthcare, agriculture, hospitality and security.

About Us

We are an award-winning high-tech startup based in Vancouver, BC, Canada with experience in the areas of flexible electronics, advanced sensors, smart textile, robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Our 5k1n solutions provide unparalleled accuracy in capturing human movements and tactile force data that can be used to tele-operate, train and develop large language models for dexterity and autonomy in humanoid and advanced robotic systems. Our solutions are being extended to robotic systems and humanoids for providing human-level dexterity, sense of touch and autonomy. We are also developing AI foundation models that incorporate tactile sensing for dexterity and autonomy in humanoids and robotic systems.

Our solutions have applications in rehabilitation, movement assessment, and healthcare beyond robotics.

To learn more, visit www.texavie.com/5k1n.

Position

We are looking for several exceptional and experienced candidates with significant interest and experience to make breakthroughs in software engineering of robotic and humanoid systems to join our team in a leading position. The successful candidate will be reporting to our management and product development teams to collaborate, design, innovate, integrate, and validate software systems for operation, control and data management of wearable devices and robotic systems focused on robotic end-effectors, dexterous hands, manipulators and overall humanoid, robotic system and wearable system designs.

Responsibilities:

• Development of software systems, operating systems, embedded software for handling and operating different embedded sensors and actuators in wearable devices and robotic electronic skin systems for embodied robotics, humanoids and physical AI
• Testing and validation of software systems, operating systems, firmware for low latency real-time and closed-loop operation, learning systems, and data gathering systems.
• Development and implementation of real-time software, embedded programming designed for working with embodied hardware and integrated sensors.
• Develop automated software and hardware testing software and algorithms to ensure operational reliability, accuracy, and low latency of the system, and test and validate durability and reliability of the robotic and wearable systems.
• Development of privacy, encryption, data protection, algorithm protection, reliable customer and user profiles that match industrial reliability and privacy standards.
• Work with software, cloud processing and storage providers for data storage, data analysis, real-time operation, and foundation model developments.
• Teamwork to achieve overall objectives of the projects, stick to milestones and product targets.
• Be open to new ideas, incorporate feedback, enjoy start-up culture and ready for bringing new breakthroughs to bring products to market. Lots of growth potential.
• Be ready for a fast pace work environment and collaborate with leading humanoid and robotic companies.
• Enjoy a fun, productive, and diverse team environment and engage with different teams.
• Self-starter, initiating projects, taking ownership and do what it takes to get the job done.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS or Graduate Degree in Software Engineering, Computer, Computer Science, or Robotics Engineering
• 2+ year of industry experience working on related topics
• Strong experience in robotic operating systems, ROS, python, linux, android or other operating systems and platform software systems
• Well-versed in Object Oriented Programming, data structures and algorithms
• Strong experience in socket programming, privacy and encryption tools and techniques, user profiles and customer profiles
• Experience in integrating with structured or unstructured databases and building, deploying and running services on Azure, Firebase, and AWS
• Experience in iOS development (Swift), flutter, Node.js, ReactJS, Javascript like asynchronous programming, closures, types and ES6 development
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills
• Experience with toolboxes: Kafka, Spark, Django, SwiftUI, Android, React Native, AngularJS, C#, C++
• Experience in movement and biomechanics, vision and tactile data and its applications
• Experience in use of IMUs and other wearable sensors
• Experience in optimizing performance and memory usage for resource constrained embedded systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in data streaming for real-time, closed-loop operation and machine learning and cloud data processing and storage
• Experience in computer vision and working with cameras and multimodal sensing inputs
• Hands on experience with signal integrity tools
• Experience in software systems using wired and wireless protocols for WiFi, Bluetooth
• Strong communication and documentation skills and ability to operate independently
• Strong problem-solving skills, big picture thinking skills and efficient work and project planning skills
• Strong communication skills and ability to work well in a team environment
• Familiarity with working with novel ideas, early stage prototype development and nuances related to early stage start-up

Industry: Consumer Electronics

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Vancouver, in-person

Contact: [email protected]