[Hiring] Contract Engineer, ROS @logcat.ai

Role Description

Build the robotics substrate adapter alongside a lighthouse ROS team. This is the test of whether the core generalizes to a substrate outside our existing expertise, so scope is tight and outcome-driven. This is a scoped, deliverable-based contract with a path to a full-time role.

Location: Remote (4h overlap with Pacific or IST; Seattle or Bengaluru on-site preferred). Contract.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• ROS 2 in production, including DDS internals (Fast DDS / Cyclone DDS), discovery, and QoS behavior.
• Experience with ros2_control, Nav2, or MoveIt.
• Robotics bringup on Jetson / L4T.
• TF2 and multi-sensor time-sync / calibration.
• Proficient in day-to-day work with CLI-based AI coding tools like Claude Code (or an equivalent).

Requirements

• Ingest and reason over robotics artifacts: rosbags (including MCAP), DDS discovery and QoS logs, ros2_control / Nav2 / MoveIt failures.
• Diagnose Jetson / L4T boot and platform issues.
• Handle the spatial and timing layer: TF2, sensor calibration, time synchronization.

Bonus

• Real-time Linux (PREEMPT_RT).
• ros2_tracing / LTTng.
• End-to-end robot bringup done solo.
• Multi-sensor platform integration.

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