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As a Senior XR Software Engineer on our Teleoperation team, you’ll build and own core parts of the system that lets a person step inside a humanoid robot and work through it in real time, from the operator’s headset to the robot and from simulation through deployment at customer sites. That includes the VR headset app, low-latency stereo video, whole-body and hand tracking mapped onto the robot, and the safety systems that keep it under control when the network doesn’t cooperate.
The work is hands-on. You’ll write code, test it in the headset and on real robots in our Houston lab, and work closely with locomotion, controls, autonomy and machine learning engineers. Teleop is one of the ways our robots collect the training data behind our machine learning models, how operators take over when autonomy reaches its limits, and how customers get work done in places too hazardous for people. You’ll join a small team where your experience directly shapes our technical direction.
If you want to build XR software that drives real robots doing real industrial work, this role is for you.
What You Will Be Doing
Design and build the headset application and robot-side services, written primarily in Rust
Build the native OpenXR application operators use to drive humanoids, robot arms, and dexterous hands, including its HUD, onboarding, and in-headset guidance
Stream stereo video and robot state to the operator, and operator commands to the robot, with low latency over Wi-Fi and wide-area networks, and keep the robot safe when the connection degrades
Map operator motion onto the robot, including whole-body and arm retargeting, dexterous hand retargeting, and pre-programmed grasps
Work with locomotion, controls, autonomy, and machine learning engineers so teleoperation produces high-quality training data and can take over when autonomy needs help
Build simulation environments and automated tests that validate teleoperation changes before they reach hardware
Run evaluations with real operators, measure where they struggle, and turn the results into improvements
Support teleoperation at customer sites, and mentor junior engineers on the team

Senior XR Software Engineer, Teleoperation at persona.ai · LumiJobs

Senior XR Software Engineer, Teleoperation

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