Contract Engineer, ROS
Build the robotics substrate adapter alongside a lighthouse ROS team. This is the test of whether the core generalizes to a substrate outside our existing expertise, so scope is tight and outcome-driven.
This is a scoped, deliverable-based contract with a path to a full-time role.
logcat.ai is the AI engineering layer for the operating-system stack. We build agentic systems for Linux and Android devices: we ingest the diagnostic artifacts a device emits (bugreports, logcat, dmesg, modem traces, ramdumps, perfetto, pcap, CAN) and help device makers diagnose, remediate, test, and author features across their OS stack, grounded in their own BSP. Think Datadog and Cursor combined for the OS layer. A VC-backed startup with a small, senior team. You work directly with the founders.
The bar
A quick, honest gut-check before you spend time on an application. If most of this sounds like you, we'd genuinely love to talk. If it's not you yet, no hard feelings, and please keep an eye on our other roles as they open.
- 0110+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- 02ROS 2 in production, including DDS internals (Fast DDS / Cyclone DDS), discovery, and QoS behavior.
- 03ros2_control, Nav2, or MoveIt.
- 04Robotics bringup on Jetson / L4T.
- 05TF2 and multi-sensor time-sync / calibration.
- 06Proficient in day-to-day work with CLI-based AI coding tools like Claude Code (or an equivalent). It's how the team operates, not a nice-to-have.
- Ingest and reason over robotics artifacts: rosbags (including MCAP), DDS discovery and QoS logs, ros2_control / Nav2 / MoveIt failures.
- Diagnose Jetson / L4T boot and platform issues.
- Handle the spatial and timing layer: TF2, sensor calibration, time synchronization.
- Real-time Linux (PREEMPT_RT).
- ros2_tracing / LTTng.
- End-to-end robot bringup done solo.
- Multi-sensor platform integration.
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