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Junior Mechanical Engineer
| Website | spectrum.ieee.org ↗ |
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| Roles | - Junior Mechanical Engineer
- Mentored by our senior mechanical engineers
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| Type | full-time |
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| Role taxonomy | Hardware / Robotics / EmbeddedSenior |
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| Specialties | Hardware |
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| Location | Carnegie Robotics -- Pittsburgh, PA -- Local -- -- US persons only |
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| Salary | — |
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| Apply via | See posting |
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| Hiring notes | — |
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| Parsed locations | Carnegie Robotics -- Pittsburgh, PA -- Local -- -- US persons only |
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| Regions | US |
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| Posted by | osterwood |
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| Posted | Sep 3, 2013 |
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| Source | View on Hacker News ↗ |
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Original posting
Carnegie Robotics -- Pittsburgh, PA -- Local -- Full Time -- US persons only
We are a 3 year-old spin-out of Carnegie Mellon and have 25 employees. Most employees are seasoned hardware and software engineers and we push hard. Some of our work is related to landmine/IED detection robots, other work is related to smart sensors (cameras, lasers and various combinations). We have both research projects in a variety of robotic sensor areas as well as production efforts underway.
One of our sensors was recently selected to be the sensor head for the upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge (http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/darpa-...)
We are hiring for the following roles, each includes a brief description of the work you would be doing:
Junior Mechanical Engineer
- Mentored by our senior mechanical engineers
- Lots of CAD work (SolidWorks) and designing everything from rugged housings to drivetrains to test fixtures.
- Lots of 3 axis and 5 axis machined part design. Some weldment and sheet metal parts design.
- Assist with testing of mechanical components
Embedded Software (junior or senior)
- Work on low level control loops for hardware
- Perception & planning logic
- We have software on everything from Atmel microcontrollers to Atom based computers to rugged i7 computers to GPUs to FPGAs
FPGA Programmer
- Accelerate our smart sensor development efforts
- Bring new stereo and computer vision algorithms to FPGAs inside our existing and upcoming products
System Electrical Engineer
- Design control, data, & power infrastructure inside our large payloads and platforms
- Design test rigs and breadboards for products under development and for production acceptance testing
Please contact my username @carnegierobotics.com