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ID #15784196
State California
City Mountainview
Job type Permanent
Salary USD Depends on Experience Depends on Experience
Source Logyx
Showed 2021-06-23
Date 2021-06-22
Deadline 2021-08-21
Category Architect/engineer/CAD
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Lunar Rover Simulation Engineer

California, Mountainview, 94043 Mountainview USA

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Lunar Rover Simulation Engineer

At NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, we are designing a Lunar prospecting mission to search for water ice in a polar region of the Moon.Join the team planning the first robotic polar Lunar surface exploration! This position is for a full-time robotics simulation engineer to develop software for the NASA VIPER Lunar Rover: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-viper-lunar-rover-to-map-water-ice-on-the-moonThe VIPER project is creating a high-fidelity Lunar simulation to support development of the flight software and mission operations training. This Gazebo/ROS2 based simulation environment interfaces with virtually every aspect of the mission, and we need people with a broad range of technical expertise to help pull it all together. If you are a software developer with a simulation, robotics, or graphics background, join us in this groundbreaking endeavor. You can learn more about our simulator in this paper: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190027571.pdf

Required Skills:• B.S. in Computer Science or Robotics• 6 + years of experience.• Strong background in developing simulation systems: - physical simulation - visual simulation - sensor simulation• Strong background in developing high-performance software, particularly with C14, Python 3, and GNU tools under Linux• Ability to simulate a complex robotics system in Gazebo, including sensors and interaction with the environment• Gazebo plugin development• ROS2 (Robot Operating System)

Desired Skills:• Physics engines (ODE, Bullet, DART)• 3D Graphics (OpenGL, GLSL, OGRE3D, BRDFs, appearance modeling)• Terrain modeling, GIS, OSGeo tools (GDAL, proj4)• 3D Modeling, CAD

Logyx’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic inform nd/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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