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
