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About the role
Lila is building a dedicated platform evaluation function within our robotics organization. The team tests and benchmarks alternative robotics platforms, including mobile manipulators, AMRs and AGVs, and other form factors, against our current production baseline. Consistent methodology across platforms is the point: results have to be directly comparable to be useful. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Professional experience deploying robotics platforms in production, commercial, or applied R&D settings
- Hands-on ROS2 and Nav2 experience in real deployments, not simulation alone
- Experience with manipulation and pick-and-place, including motion planning and grasp execution
- Experience with controls for robot arms or mobile bases
- Experience integrating and calibrating camera or lidar perception pipelines
- Direct experience with AMRs/AGVs or 6 to 7 DoF arms, including grippers and end effectors
More about this role
Lila is building a dedicated platform evaluation function within our robotics organization. The team tests and benchmarks alternative robotics platforms, including mobile manipulators, AMRs and AGVs, and other form factors, against our current production baseline. Consistent methodology across platforms is the point: results have to be directly comparable to be useful.
As a Robotics Platform Evaluation Engineer, you own robots end to end. You unbox and commission new hardware, integrate it with our software stack and infrastructure, execute the full test program, and turn the results into decision-ready comparisons that inform which platforms we adopt.
This is a hands-on, systems-level role. You will be in the lab working directly with hardware, not reviewing spec sheets. You will also shape the evaluation methodology and the tooling behind it, so each platform assessment runs faster and more consistently than the last.
- Commission new robotics platforms from unboxing through integration with our stack
- Own end-to-end evaluation of assigned platforms, from test plan to benchmark report
- Run test suites spanning navigation, manipulation, perception, and controls
- Integrate...
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