# Senior Autonomy Engineer at Brain Corp

- Company: Brain Corp
- What the company does: Brain Corp is an autonomous technology company powering the most proven robots and AI, helping organizations create more productive and intelligent operations. Backed by SoftBank VF.
- Company website: https://www.braincorp.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Diego, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $224K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://www.braincorp.com/open-positions?gh_jid=8650258002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/brain-corp-senior-autonomy-engineer/

## About the role

As a Senior Autonomy Engineer on our R&D team, you'll help define the next generation of software that lets robots perceive, learn, and act in unstructured indoor environments. You'll work across the modern autonomy stack — from learned perception and prediction to mapping and motion planning — and ship capabilities that generalize across our fleet. We're looking for someone equally comfortable reading a fresh arXiv paper, writing production C++/Python, and debugging behavior on a real robot in the lab.

## What they're looking for

- Master’s Degree. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent demonstrated experience
- 5+ years of relevant industry or research experience building autonomy, perception, or ML systems
- Strong fluency in Python and C++ in a Linux environment
- Demonstrated track record of taking research ideas and papers into deployed implementations
- Depth in one or more of: machine learning (supervised, self-supervised, imitation, RL), SLAM and state estimation, motion planning, or 3D perception
- Hands-on experience with PyTorch (and/or JAX), modern training pipelines, and contemporary architectures (transformers, diffusion models, vision-language-action models)

Tags: Software Engineering