Persona AI is building a rugged humanoid platform to supplement the industrial skilled-labor workforce. Our robots are designed to perform complex tasks such as welding, grinding, and painting in demanding real-world environments.

To succeed, they must understand the job site, translate high-level objectives into executable plans, carry out those plans safely and reactively, and adapt as conditions change. We are looking for a Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Autonomy to help design and build the autonomy stack that enables these capabilities, from simulation through deployment on the shop floor.

This role combines world modeling with proven autonomy techniques to develop intelligent behaviors for humanoids operating at live industrial sites. We train the robot’s world model on representative industrial tasks and environments, giving it a deep understanding of the work it must perform. Before each new deployment, we then refine and validate its behavior in a digital twin simulation of the customer’s facility to ensure safety, reliability, and performance.

What You Will Be Doing

Design and implement autonomy and behavior coordination algorithms for an industrial humanoid platform

Work with manipulation, navigation, perception, and teleop engineers to integrate robot skills into autonomous robot behaviors

Develop plan execution approaches that combine classical control and learned policies

Design and implement behavior execution that is reactive, safe, adaptable, and explainable

Integrate autonomy with robot safety, health monitoring, bring-up, and safe shutdown

Design and implement pipelines for autonomous behavior evaluation, benchmarking, and regression testing

Implement data curation pipelines that enable our robots to understand a variety of real-world industrial tasks

Develop synthetic data generation pipelines for post-training of humanoid world models

Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Autonomy

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persona.ai

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