Robotics Engineer (Jr, Sr., Principal)

Company Overview.

We’re in a unique point in time where the demand from decarbonization and AI data centers have required the world to scale energy infrastructure at rates never seen before in the history of humanity. Luminous Robotics, Inc. addresses this generational problem through flexible, physical AI robot fleets for construction and operations of solar energy infrastructure.

We are a fast moving startup having established ourselves as a leader in solar automation. Within the past 12 months, Luminous has developed three generations of LUMI robots and brought online clean energy for thousands of homes in the U.S. — the company is now scaling into large scale commercial fleet deployments.

We're looking for experienced and talented engineers and technicians to help scale fleets of LUMI robots globally.

About the Role.

Luminous is seeking skilled robotics engineers to join our founding team, who have not only worked at world class companies, shipping thousands of robots into production, but have also built, scaled, and exited multiple startups.

We are an early stage startup with high growth potential – the candidates will report directly to the founding team and will have a significant equity stake in the company. We are looking for self-driven, passionate, and ambitious builders who not only have an immense desire for the betterment of our planet, but strong leadership qualities to make it happen.

Responsibilities

This is a general job posting for the following roles:

Deployment Technician Lead, USA

Sr. Robotics Nav + Controls Eng, USA

Hardware Engineer - Electrical & Safety, USA

(2) Robotics Engineer, USA

Infrastructure Engineer - SW, USA

Deployment Lead Technician, AU

(2) Deployment Technician, AU

You will be responsible for,

Ownership of various software modules within the LUMI robot spanning navigation, perception, manipulation, UX, and general software engineering, and/or

Ownership of various hardware related projects such as conducting rapid R&D, mechanical and electrical integrations, safety systems, mechanism design, and product reliability hardening, and/or

Ownership across the full scope of deploying, supporting, and delivering onsite customer projects in the field, directly contributing to building solar farms real time

Qualifications

We believe the ideal candidates are not necessarily the ones that have a specific type of education or previous employment experience – rather they have a synergetic and deep appreciation for the culture we are building at Luminous (see open sourced memo on website) and has the engineering talent to execute with velocity. Meaning, you embody

General creativity to manifest amazing engineering solutions in a sea of unknowns, overwhelming constraints, and ambitious timelines, and have

Deep curiosity and passion to solve problems where there is no correct answer with resourcefulness to discover answers to problems that have indeed already been solved

The following are some skills that will likely be relevant to your day to day,

Writing clean, efficient C++ code for robots in production (industry standards like ROS, OpenCV, PCL)

Classical computer vision principles (2D features, convolutions, etc) and 3D point cloud geometric algorithms, along with machine learning models (shipping neural nets into prod) for navigation and manipulation

Ability to CAD concepts and manufacture them into reality

Working with kinematics and motion control for industrial robot arms

Working with RGB-D cameras, active & passive stereo systems, LiDARs at both a hardware and software integration level

Knowledge of basic electronics, communication protocols, battery systems, mechanisms, high voltage systems

Ability to debug across the full stack down to the hardware level if required

Communicate and be hands on shipping LUMI to active construction sites