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At Serve Robotics, we’re reimagining how things move in cities. Our personable sidewalk robot is our vision for the future. It’s designed to take deliveries away from congested streets, make deliveries available to more people, and benefit local businesses. The Serve fleet has been delighting merchants, customers, and pedestrians along the way in Los Angeles while doing commercial deliveries.

The Serve fleet has been delighting merchants, customers, and pedestrians along the way in Los Angeles while doing commercial deliveries. We’re looking for talented individuals who will grow robotic deliveries from surprising novelty to efficient ubiquity.

Who We Are

We are tech industry veterans in software, hardware, and design who are pooling our skills to build the future we want to live in. We are solving real-world problems leveraging robotics, machine learning and computer vision, among other disciplines, with a mindful eye towards the end-to-end user experience. Our team is agile, diverse, and driven. We believe that the best way to solve complicated dynamic problems is collaboratively and respectfully.

What you'll be doing

There's undeniable demand for cheap, fast and reliable deliveries (pick all three!) across all delivery companies, restaurant chains and individual restaurants.

We want Serve to help all of them. To accomplish this, Serve needs autonomous driving and routing capabilities built on top of robust, scalable maps, as well as high quality real-time localization to make use of these maps. We are a small but highly capable team, so the impact of your work will be considerable.

Responsibilities

Design and implement core pieces of our next generation mapping and localization engine.
Contribute to a mapping system that scales to city-size environments while preserving high resolution geometry to aid navigation in tight quarters.
Collaborate to improve map annotation tooling and consumption of data by neural network based approaches for safe traversable area navigation.
Contribute to flexible location estimation fusing relative and absolute measurements.
Work closely with other autonomy team members to maximize the utility provided by mapping and localization.
Ship production quality code, participate in code reviews, teach / mentor more junior engineers.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Robotics focused in localization and mapping and 2+ years of industry experience.
Experience building SLAM systems in production
Strong C++ programming skills.
Experience designing and building a simple system that works, and having it gradually evolve into a elegant system that scales.
Strong verbal and writing communication skills.

What’s makes you standout

PhD in Robotics focused in localization and mapping.
Experience building cloud applications
Building infrastructure for labeling and maintaining HD maps
Experience with very large geospatial datasets
Experience with CUDA programming
Experience with real sensors, such as lidar, camera, RGB-D, etc.

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$100000 / YEARLY (est.)

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What You Should Know About Mapping & Localization Engineer, Serve Robotics

At Serve Robotics in Los Angeles, we're on a mission to transform urban logistics with our innovative sidewalk robots. As a Mapping & Localization Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of robotic delivery services. Imagine guiding these autonomous vehicles through bustling cityscapes, ensuring they navigate efficiently and safely while delighting customers, merchants, and pedestrians alike. We’re all about harnessing the power of robotics, machine learning, and computer vision to solve real-world problems. Your primary focus will be designing and implementing our next-generation mapping and localization engine. This means you'll have the chance to work on scalable mapping systems, improve localization accuracy, and collaborate closely with talented engineers and designers. With your expertise, we aim to enhance our maps and routing capabilities, making deliveries faster and more reliable than ever. Every contribution you make will matter in shaping the user experience as we work towards making our services a staple in Los Angeles. Whether you're refining our annotation tools or fusing location estimates, you’ll be an integral part of our agile, diverse team. We’re looking for someone with a Bachelor’s degree in Robotics and a solid background in SLAM systems and C++. If you're ready to challenge yourself and make a tangible impact on urban delivery, we want to hear from you!

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What are the responsibilities of a Mapping & Localization Engineer at Serve Robotics?

As a Mapping & Localization Engineer at Serve Robotics, you will be responsible for designing and implementing core components of our mapping and localization engine. This includes developing scalable mapping systems for urban environments, enhancing map annotation tooling, contributing to flexible location estimation methods, and collaborating closely with the autonomy team to optimize our delivery robots' navigation capabilities.