Humanoid Robot Operator Interface Engineer

Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our Humanoid is designed for corporate tasks targeting labor shortages and jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. We are based in Sunnyvale, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. 

Figure’s vision is to deploy autonomous humanoids at a global scale. We are looking for an Operator Interface Engineer to empower Figure humanoid robots to remotely interact with human operators through various interfaces.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, test, and deploy operator interfaces for humanoid robots. These interfaces will include both 3D virtual reality interfaces and 2D traditional GUI keyboard/mouse interfaces
• Develop an immersive avatar operator interface, in which the human operator feels as if they are the actual robot
• Integrate various sensing, perception, and autonomy modules in the operator interfaces, allowing operators to operate in a higher-level supervisory role
• Develop mission-level operator interfaces for interacting with nominally fully-autonomous robots, which will occasionally require human intervention in challenging situations
• Develop and use modern software engineering techniques to implement high quality, well-tested software
• Evaluate potential operator interface solutions and make design trade offs and decisions based on robot requirements
• Engineer and ship high quality, reliable software that will be deployed to the real world
• Work with the Figure Integration and Testing team to evaluate and continuously improve your operator interfaces

Requirements:

• Experience implementing, testing, and deploying operator interfaces on real robots
• Experience with various virtual reality and GUI frameworks
• Capable of quickly writing massive amounts of high quality, well-tested, operator interface software
• Possess both a theoretical understanding and have practical experience with operator interfaces
• Have a deep knowledge of state of the art techniques, data structures, and software tools
• Thrive in a high pace environment, where solutions are often unclear and require exploration

Bonus Qualifications:

• Passionate about building humanoid robots
• Experience with deploying real world operator interfaces for commercial applications
• Publication record of developing and deploying operator interfaces