NASA Lunar Rover Simulation Engineer C++ Python GNU

Work Location: NASA Ames Research Center - Mountain View, CA

Minimum Citizenship: U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

Clearance: US Government 

JOB DESCRIPTION - NASA Lunar Rover Simulation Engineer C++ Python GNU
 

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:

The 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:

REQUIREMENTS - NASA Lunar Rover Simulation Engineer C++ Python GNU
 
Education : BS in Computer Science or Robotics Engineering
Year(s) of Experience : 2+ years of related experience
Qualifications, Skills and Traits:
 

• Strong background in physical simulation, visual simulation, and/or sensor simulation
• Strong background in developing high-performance software, particularly with C++11, Python 3, and GNU tools under Linux
• Ability to simulate a complex robotics system in Gazebo, including sensors and interaction with the environment

Desired Skills:
 

• Gazebo plugin development - ROS2 (Robot Operating System)
• Physics engines (ODE, Bullet, DART)
• 3D Graphics (OpenGL, GLSL, OGRE, appearance modeling)
• Terrain modeling, GIS, OSGeo tools (GDAL, proj4)
• 3D Modeling, CAD

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