Contract Engineer, ROS

Build the robotics substrate adapter alongside a lighthouse ROS team. This is the test of whether the core generalizes to a substrate outside our existing expertise, so scope is tight and outcome-driven.

This is a scoped, deliverable-based contract with a path to a full-time role.

Location: Remote (4h overlap with Pacific or IST; Seattle or Bengaluru on-site preferred). Contract.

The bar

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience.

• ROS 2 in production, including DDS internals (Fast DDS / Cyclone DDS), discovery, and QoS behavior.

• ros2_control, Nav2, or MoveIt.

• Robotics bringup on Jetson / L4T.

• TF2 and multi-sensor time-sync / calibration.

• Proficient in day-to-day work with CLI-based AI coding tools like Claude Code (or an equivalent). It's how the team operates, not a nice-to-have.

What you'll do

• Ingest and reason over robotics artifacts: rosbags (including MCAP), DDS discovery and QoS logs, ros2_control / Nav2 / MoveIt failures.

• Diagnose Jetson / L4T boot and platform issues.

• Handle the spatial and timing layer: TF2, sensor calibration, time synchronization.

Bonus

• Real-time Linux (PREEMPT_RT).

• ros2_tracing / LTTng.

• End-to-end robot bringup done solo.

• Multi-sensor platform integration.

In your application, tell us what you'd own here, and the hardest thing you've shipped in this domain.