Yondu
Robots to Automate Fulfillment
Founding Robotics Engineer
About the role
We are looking for a robotics generalist who is eager to take on any task that arises. This includes but is not limited to:
- Developing perception algorithms for tasks such as few shot object detection and scene recognition.
- Building out the navigation stack which includes multimodal (LiDAR, RGBD, IMU, landmark) SLAM implementations for effective navigation and path planning in structured environments with dynamic obstacles
- Creating data collection and training pipelines for deep learning models to assist in manipulation tasks such as picking, placing, and scanning inventory items.
- Guiding and educating your team members in areas you see fit!
As for experience, we don't have any strict requirement on degree but more experience and eagerness with working on difficult problems in robotics is always nice! We will be developing out of our office and a 3PL warehouse in the city of Gardena in LA County starting January next year so we'll require you be in the area.
About the interview
We’ll have 2-3 interviews to go over technical skills, projects you would like to take on, and discussions about the role.
About Yondu
Yondu is a startup deploying robots to solve labor intensive problems in retail and 3PL services. We are first addressing batch picking for order fulfillment by using mobile manipulators and wheeled humanoids. Currently we are upgrading off the shelf robots to complete this task, but we will soon manufacture our own robots!
The company was founded by MIT students and has already raised seed funding after graduating from the YC W24 batch.
