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Comment · 4 years ago

Duckietown | Software engineers (robotics, backend, frontend) | REMOTE, Boston, Zurich

Duckietown is an American and Swiss robotics education startup company whose goal is to provide accessible and state-of-the-art robot autonomy education for everybody.

Duckietown started as a class at MIT; you can see this duckumentary [1] from the early days. You can see our recent story on our website [2], such as the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) we organized on edX [3] and the AI Driving Olympics [4] at NeurIPS.

[1]: https://vimeo.com/duckietown/duckumentary

[2]: http://www.duckietown.org/

[3]: https://vimeo.com/duckietown/mooc-trailer

[4]: https://vimeo.com/duckietown/aido-intro

We have currently these open positions:

1) Robotics UX engineer:

https://duckietown.freshteam.com/jobs/_S5qI-xezjAI/robotics-...

2) Backend software developer / DevOps:

https://duckietown.freshteam.com/jobs/BW69OwMAXkRO/backend-s...

We plan to have many more positions open in the next weeks; so please apply even if these two do not fit 100%.

Our team is currently 100% REMOTE for the pure-software part; we plan the accumulation points Zurich, Boston, and Rome for hardware development and testing.

Comment · 4 years ago

Duckietown | Software engineers (robotics, backend, frontend) | REMOTE, Zurich, Boston, Rome (Italy)

Duckietown is an American and Swiss robotics education startup company whose goal is to provide accessible and state-of-the-art robot autonomy education for everybody.

[1]: https://vimeo.com/duckietown/duckumentary [2]: http://www.duckietown.com/ [3]: https://vimeo.com/duckietown/mooc-trailer [4]: https://vimeo.com/duckietown/aido-intro

We have currently these open positions:

1) Robotics UX engineer:

https://duckietown.freshteam.com/jobs/_S5qI-xezjAI/robotics-...

2) Backend software developer / DevOps:

https://duckietown.freshteam.com/jobs/BW69OwMAXkRO/backend-s...

We plan to have many more positions open in the next weeks; so please apply even if these two do not fit 100%.

Our team is currently 100% REMOTE for the pure-software part; we plan the accumulation points Zurich, Boston, and Rome for hardware development and testing.

Comment · 6 years ago

Hi Brutus,

Duckietown is based on ROS. You can assemble the robot and control it easily from ROS on your laptop (note that the stack runs on board completely).

For new hardware: we have in beta a Drone version of Duckietown for the high school: https://sites.brown.edu/duckiesky/ The Drone MOOC will arrive in time.

Comment · 6 years ago

To my knowledge, this is the first MOOC on self-driving cars where each student can have their own robot home to play with.

Our feeling is that to really learn about robotics you need to touch and see things with your own eyes. This was one of the major motivating factors for us.

By the way, because it's a kit that you assemble, after you finish this course (and the follow-ups to come out) can do other projects with the Jetson Nano, sensors, and servos included.

Comment · 6 years ago

Yes, we have a simulation environment.

You can see it on https://challenges.duckietown.org/v4 , the challenges server for the AI Driving Olympics: https://aido.duckietown.org

Comment · 6 years ago

Good point, probably we should describe them in more detail.

For the second point ("elements of linear algebra .. ") we are going to need to use matrices to represent coordinate systems.

For the third point ("elements of kinematics, dynamics") we are going to write down the equation of motions of the robot with time derivatives (ODEs).

If you have never heard of these things you might want to read up on them first.

Comment · 6 years ago

I am Andrea Censi, one of the creators (https://censi.science). Feel free to AMA!

Comment · 6 years ago

ETH Zurich | Zurich | Scientific Software Engineer | REMOTE VISA | Full Time

We are looking for an experienced scientific software engineer to manage a large portfolio of software projects related to research in AI/robotics.

https://www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_0bLTBTpoEGw80iJU...

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Comment · 9 years ago

nuTonomy is one of the leading start-ups in the autonomous vehicles area. We have fleets of autonomous cars in Singapore and Boston.

Yes, the first time you will be riding on a self-driving car, it will be a terrifying experience, with the spooky wheel that moves by itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP_lAjIfZwU The second time, we hope it will feel boring, which means that we achieved our objective to create a comfortable and predictable and overall safe car.

We are growing rapidly, and have many job opportunities. Here you can see a sample: http://nutonomy.com/careers

But really, rather than "filling opening positions", we are looking for excellent candidates that will do exceptional work. When these smart people join, it's them who tell us what they need to do. So I encourage you to get in touch even if no listed position corresponds to your profile.

In particular, there are needs that we have but hard to describe without giving away too much of our secret plans. These involve problems related to programming languages design, automated synthesis of programs, formal methods, etc. Please get in touch if you are a senior person in those areas -- even if you don't see the connection to autonomous vehicles.

Feel free to get in touch with any question ([email protected]). Please do not send requests regarding internships to me; we have a large intern program, but I only deal with senior & research positions.

Comment · 9 years ago

nuTonomy | Santa Monica, Boston, Singapore, Zurich | fulltime, ONSITE, VISA transfer | Everything!

nuTonomy is a rapidly growing startup creating fleets of self-driving cars. We were the first to have a pilot with real passengers (before Uber and Google!).

We are hiring in literally everything, on 3 continents!

Please see some of our jobs descriptions at http://nutonomy.com/jobs For senior people, we are open to tailor title and responsibilities.

Please feel free to get in touch with me directly if you have any questions (andrea AT nutonomy.com).

Comment · 9 years ago

Definetely, Waymo is ahead of everybody, but the race is closer than one would think. In addition to Google and Uber, there exist about a dozen smaller players but with competitive technology.

For example, nuTonomy, the start-up at which I work, has deployed a similar trial in Singapore in August 2016. (btw, we are hiring in everything!).

It's not a "race", it's more like a "marathon": there is a big difference in making something that works 99% of the times (sufficient for a trial like the above), and something that works 99.9999...% of the times (a product that can be actually deployed).