# Robotics Autonomy Engineer at Cleo Robotics

- Company: Cleo Robotics
- What the company does: Full-time, exempt Boston, Massachusetts On-site, five days per week Reports to the CTO ABOUT US Cleo Robotics builds unconventional autonomous robotic systems designed to operate in the world’s most challenging and inaccessible environments. Backed by Techstars.
- Company website: https://cleorobotics.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Boston, MA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-06
- Apply by: 2026-10-21
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/cleo-robotics/jobs/7574279e-28fb-4534-9feb-88e5ea0a679c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cleo-robotics-robotics-autonomy-engineer/

## About the role

We are seeking a Robotics Autonomy Engineer to work on cutting-edge intelligence and autonomy features for our Dronut UAV platforms. Responsibilities of the role include the development, integration, testing, and deployment of advanced artificial intelligence and autonomy algorithms which will enable Dronut to navigate in previously unknown GPS-denied environments.

## What they're looking for

- Own and advance Cleo’s autonomy stack across localization, mapping, state estimation, sensor fusion, path planning, obstacle avoidance, and mission execution
- Work across autonomy, perception, sensors, flight controls, and vehicle dynamics to solve system-level problems and optimize real-time performance
- Develop and harden visual-inertial and LiDAR-based SLAM, multi-sensor fusion, sensor calibration, relocalization, drift management, and map persistence
- Develop perception and reactive autonomy for obstacle detection, free-space understanding, dynamic replanning, and safe navigation through changing and unpredictable environments
- Build autonomous behaviors including path following, mission execution, data collection, health monitoring, fault detection, redundancy, graceful degradation, recovery, and safe return behaviors
- Take cutting-edge robotics research and turn it into reliable product capability on compute-constrained edge hardware

Tags: Engineering