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(M/W) AI & Control Engineer – Perception and Navigation

Wandercraft is hiring!

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Chez Wandercraft, nous concevons, fabriquons et vendons des robots dont la mission est d’aider les humains à faire ce qu’ils ne peuvent pas faire. Nous mettons en oeuvre les technologies d’AI et de robotique les plus avancées dans les métiers de la santé et de l’industrie.

Atalante X, le premier exosquelette de marche autonome au monde, est utilisé dans plus de 100 centres de rééducation sur 4 continents, et permet à des patients qui ont perdu la marche de ré-apprendre à marcher. Avec Atalante X ils font plus d’un million de pas chaque mois.

Après plus de 10 ans sur le terrain et des milliards de pas analysés, nous lançons Eve, le premier exosquelette personnel auto-équilibré, pensé pour aider les utilisateurs en fauteuil roulant à se lever et marcher dans leur vie quotidienne, chez eux et dans la ville.

Enfin, nous commençons à appliquer notre technologie dans l’industrie, avec la gamme de robots humanoïdes Calvin. Calvin-40, notre premier modèle, a été conçu en 40 jours pour soulager les opérateurs en usine des tâches pénibles ou dangereuses. Bientôt une évolution de Calvin accompagnera des personnes avec une autonomie réduite dans leurs gestes quotidiens.

Depuis Paris et New York, notre équipe de 110 ingénieurs, cliniciens, chercheurs et opérateurs est unie autour d’une même mission : concevoir des robots qui améliorent la vie des humains.

Ce n’est pas une simple équipe que nous assemblons : c’est une aventure portée par des esprits curieux, engagés, des pionniers prêts à construire un futur qui a du sens.

Envie de rejoindre l’aventure ? Viens façonner avec nous la prochaine génération de robotique humanoïde, alimentée par l’IA et guidée par l’humain.

Job Description

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Our Perception and Navigation Team is expanding to meet new challenges!

To serve new industrial use cases ever more reliably, our humanoid robot must be able to detect multiple objects of interest and estimate their poses. It must also be able to understand its environment in order to navigate safely and autonomously.

Our team is responsible for developing the knowledge and the codebase needed to address these challenges. We explore a range of state-of-the-art techniques, whether based on machine learning, classical computer vision, or model-based control.

The Perception and Navigation team is part of the AI & Control department and works closely with other members of this department. It also collaborates regularly with other R&D teams: embedded software, electronics, and mechanics.

Your responsibilities may include:

  • Selecting the most suitable vision/perception sensors for our needs

  • Conducting literature reviews related to ongoing projects

  • Presenting the latest innovations from the literature or internally developed algorithms to the team

  • Developing algorithms for object detection, pose estimation, or feature recognition

  • Creating a map of the environment that can be used to understand and navigate it

  • Developing navigation and control algorithms for various robots, including autonomous navigation for humanoid robots and navigation assistance for exoskeletons

  • Working closely with other teams to ensure the overall performance of the algorithms

  • Testing on real robots and in simulation

  • Traveling to customer sites (e.g., healthcare centers or factories) to ensure algorithms function properly in real-world conditions and making corrections as needed

  • Automated testing, code quality, and designing verification pipelines to ensure non-regression

Preferred Experience

Qualifications : Engineering degree or PhD in perception, navigation, machine learning, robotics, or a similar field.

Experience :

We are looking for various seniority levels. Academic experience will be highly valued, particularly in relation to perception or the use of point clouds, navigation or optimal control, machine learning, etc.

Ideally, you have experience in software development (Python/C++), particularly in a team (version control tools, modularity, responding to specifications, continuous integration, etc.).

You are creative and innovative. You are comfortable in developing new things with a limited existing base and making prototypes (personal or professional robotics projects are valued).

You enjoy experimental work and adapting algorithms to the constraints of real-world environments and commercial products.

You are comfortable with general algorithmic, and in particular with linear algebra (matrix calculations), and physical modeling (reference frame changes, odometry, etc.). You are rigorous, able to proofread your work, and explain your calculations or algorithms clearly.

You are curious and have good analytical skills, enabling you to monitor technological developments effectively and learn from scientific literature or meetings at conferences.

Skills (hard and softskills) :

  • Python - Expert level

  • C++ - Expert level

  • Vision (feature detection, mapping, SLAM) - Expert level

  • Navigation (path planning, path tracking...) - Expert level

  • Machine learning (data analysis, augmentation, labeling, validation) - Autonomous level

  • Robotics (kinematics, odometry, real data analysis) - Autonomous level

  • Linear algebra, numerical optimization - Autonomous level

  • Control systems (observers, controllers) - Basic knowledge

  • Continuous analysis of the state of the art in the field - Autonomous level

  • Software development best practices, continuous integration, automated testing - Autonomous level

Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Location: Paris
  • Occasional remote authorized
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