As a Co-Op on the Production Robotics team at Lila Sciences, you will help build the algorithms and software that let our robots know where they are and what they are looking at, so they can run scientific workflows reliably inside the AI Science Factories (AISFs). The team develops the state estimation, perception, and testing infrastructure that general-purpose robotic skills depend on.

Your work will sit at the intersection of estimation, computer vision, and robotics software. You will help improve how our mobile bases estimate their position and motion, develop camera-based detection and localization of AprilTags and lab instruments, and strengthen the simulation-based testing and CI that validate changes before they reach hardware. Expect a mix of writing production-quality software, applying math to real sensor data, and debugging real-world behavior on physical robots.

What You'll Be Building

Fuse multi-sensor data to improve mobile base state estimation

Build camera-based AprilTag and instrument detection and localization for robot manipulation and navigation

Develop new robot capabilities in ROS 2 (Jazzy)

Expand simulation-based tests and CI pipelines so changes are validated before deployment on hardware

Evaluate estimation and perception performance on real robot data and contribute fixes back to the codebase

Ship production code alongside robotics, software, and AI engineers

Document algorithms, test approaches, and integration patterns for the rest of the team

Co-Op, Robot Perception & State Estimation

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Lila Sciences

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