14 Jun
Robotics Simulation Engineer
California, Mountainview , 94035 Mountainview USA

Vacancy expired!

Lunar Rover Simulation EngineerAt NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, we are designing a Lunar prospecting mission to search for water ice in a polar region of the Moon.Join the team planning the first robotic polar Lunar surface exploration! This position is for a full-time robotics simulation engineer to develop software for the NASA VIPER Lunar Rover:https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-viper-lunar-rover-to-map-water-ice-on-the-moonThe VIPER project is creating a high-fidelity Lunar simulation to support development of the flight software and mission operations training. This Gazebo/ROS2 based simulation environment interfaces with virtually every aspect of the mission, and we need people with a broad range of technical expertise to help pull it all together. If you are a software developer with a simulation, robotics, or graphics background, join us in this groundbreaking endeavor. You can learn more about our simulator in this paper: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190027571.pdf

Requirements:
  • B.S. (or higher) in Computer Science or Robotics and at least 2 years of experience.

Required Skills and Traits:
  • Strong background in physical simulation, visual simulation, and/or sensor simulation
  • Strong background in developing high-performance software, particularly with C11, Python 3, and GNU tools under Linux
  • Ability to simulate a complex robotics system in Gazebo, including sensors and interaction with the environment

Other Desired Skills:
  • Gazebo plugin development

- ROS2 (Robot Operating System)
  • Physics engines (ODE, Bullet, DART)
  • 3D Graphics (OpenGL, GLSL, OGRE, appearance modeling)
  • Terrain modeling, GIS, OSGeo tools (GDAL, proj4)
  • 3D Modeling, CAD

Vacancy expired!

Subscribe for new vacancies
Report job