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The team develops the state estimation, perception, and testing infrastructure that general-purpose robotic skills depend on.\nYour work will sit at the intersection of estimation, computer vision, and robotics software. You will help improve how our mobile bases estimate their position and motion, develop camera-based detection and localization of AprilTags and lab instruments, and strengthen the simulation-based testing and CI that validate changes before they reach hardware. Expect a mix of writing production-quality software, applying math to real sensor data, and debugging real-world behavior on physical robots.\nYou will work alongside robotics engineers, AI researchers, and software engineers, with day-to-day support from the Production Robotics team. The output is software that runs in production lab environments and directly accelerates the rate at which Lila can run experiments.\nWhat You'll Be Building\nFuse multi-sensor data to improve mobile base state estimation\nBuild camera-based AprilTag and instrument detection and localization for robot manipulation and navigation\nDevelop new robot capabilities in ROS 2 (Jazzy)\nExpand simulation-based tests and CI pipelines so changes are validated before deployment on hardware\nEvaluate estimation and perception performance on real robot data and contribute fixes back to the codebase\nShip production code alongside robotics, software, and AI engineers\nDocument algorithms, test approaches, and integration patterns for the rest of the team\nWhat You'll Need to Succeed\nIn-progress Master's (preferred) or strong senior-year Bachelor's in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with a controls/estimation leaning\nProficiency in Python and/or C++, with coursework or project experience writing well-tested code\nFamiliarity with state estimation and sensor fusion (e.g., Kalman filtering)\nStrong foundation in linear algebra and probability\nComfort with Git and Linux development environments\nStrong communication skills and ability to work effectively across a multidisciplinary team\nAvailable for the full spring co-op term\nBonus Points For\nExperience with ROS 2 (Jazzy preferred) or another robotics framework\nHands-on experience with camera systems and computer vision (e.g., OpenCV, AprilTags, camera calibration)\nExperience with simulation-based testing and CI (e.g., Gazebo, GitHub Actions)\nExperience integrating software with sensors, actuators, or other physical systems\nCoursework or projects in localization, SLAM, or robot control\nAbout LILA\nLila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.\nLILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai.\nGuided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.\nWe’re All In\nLila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.\nInformation you provide during your application process will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.\nA Note to Agencies\nLila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. 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