Autonomy Engineer Intern

LionsBot builds autonomous commercial cleaning robots, and this internship is about making them more reliable in the real world. You will build the test and evaluation pipeline that takes autonomy changes from simulation to validated runs on our physical robots, and you will own one autonomy feature improvement from design through to release.

Key Responsibilities:

oBuild and automate a simulation regression suite for the ROS 2 autonomy stack that runs on every release candidate.

oDesign and run real-robot regression tests, and report metrics such as mission success rate, interventions and collisions.

oTurn real-world failures from rosbags and field logs into reproducible simulation test cases.

oOwn one autonomy feature improvement (perception, localisation, planning or control) from design doc through sim validation to a real-robot release.

oDebug issues across the stack on physical robots alongside autonomy and field engineers.

oDocument the pipeline and the feature so the team can run and maintain them after the internship.

Required Qualifications:

oCurrently studying for a Bachelor's or Master's in Robotics, EEE, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, CS or similar; internship must be school-approved.

oHands-on ROS / ROS 2 experience on physical robot hardware, in C++ or Python.

oWorking knowledge of at least one of: localisation and mapping, path planning, state estimation, control.

oComfortable with Linux and Git, and with debugging using rosbags, RViz and logs.

oAvailable full-time and on-site in Singapore for the full internship term (6 months preferred).

oNice to have: Nav2, SLAM Toolbox or Cartographer, Gazebo or Isaac Sim, CI / test automation, robotics competition experience.