Test and Validation Engineer, Sanctuary AI
Teleoperation
+ Stock Options
Human-like intelligence robotics
Job no longer available
Human-like intelligence robotics
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots at a time that is right to make it happen.
Role
Who you are
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent work experience
- Knowledge of professional engineering practices for the full product life-cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source management, Agile, testing, and operations
- Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and run tests
- Excellent mechatronic aptitude, hands-on experience with complex systems
- Demonstrated experience in Systems Engineering disciplines would allow you to hit the ground running in this role
- Familiarity with C/C++, Bash Scripting, and Python
- Experience with VR and AR controls systems
- Familiarity with testing processes and data organization
- Safe operation of complex mechatronic systems
- Maker skill-set (ability and willingness to use different lab equipment and tools to produce components whenever required)
- Familiarity with ROS2 and/or DDS
- Taking on a global-scale challenge that could create fundamental change appeals to you
- You have excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) and enjoy working as a part of a multidisciplinary team
- You are organized, learn quickly, document everything, attend to detail, and are excited by challenges while looking for correlations
- You are open to learning skills outside of your expertise
- Systematic and holistic approach to implementing improvements and/or troubleshooting issues
- Patience, persistence, and attention to detail when resolving performance issues
- Can-do attitude and willing to take on challenges where success is far from guaranteed
- Obsession with bringing human-like intelligence to machines
What the job involves
- Ultimately, you'll manage execution against our workflow testing process for teleoperation and telemetry components throughout the simulated and robotic system, establish procedures for running those tests, automate as much as possible, and maximize scalable testing acceleration
- Achieve company-wide visibility as you work with leadership to continually push the boundaries of implementing, documenting, and maintaining testing solutions and lifecycles
- Expand your experience as you develop a user-level understanding of advanced modern robotics and human-like intelligence systems
- Tap into your leadership skills as you document, communicate, and enforce testing policies, test results, methods, regimes, scenarios, and plans with the team
- Work with cross-functional engineering teams to develop new tests, operations, processes, and methodologies
- Test real-time and mission-critical software for teleoperation, telepresence, and telemetry
- Set up, pilot, and troubleshoot robot operations in simulated and real-world environments
- Generate, Run, and Document tests to uncover functional gaps in the teleoperation, telepresence, telemetry, and data collection
- Keep your knowledge updated in the state of the art teleoperations practices
- Testing the full teleoperation stack and individual components with a disciplined, meticulous, and thorough process
- Develop processes to enhance testing of newly developed code for teleoperation, telemetry, and telepresence
- Ensure that the tests have good coverage and that the edge cases are documented and known
- Propose changes to the workings of algorithms or processes if possible
- Learn to pilot the GPRs in SIM and Reality, while keeping the integrity of the hardware (motion capture/teleop rig and robot) in mind
- Upkeep of the teleop rigs (Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Force Feedback)
- Pilot the SIM and GPR for normal data collection and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities
- Observe and note any improvements to: Ergonomics, Process, Control, Algorithms, Interfaces... anything regarding the piloting interface
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Sanctuary has set itself the ambitious task of developing human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots, intending to complement the human labor market - and eventually helping humans settle in outer space. Its robots are modelled on the size and shape of humans, and their cognitive architecture is based on the subsystems of the human brain. The hope is that this puts the so-far elusive artificial general intelligence (AGI) in closer reach.
It’s a challenging mission, but the Sanctuary team have remarkable expertise and experience. Before Sanctuary, the founders launched deep tech robotics company Kindred with backing from the likes of Google and Bloomberg Beta. Whilst it was eventually bought out by Ocado, Sanctuary was designed to pick up where Kindred’s early research left off.
Some critics suggest that Sanctuary’s technology isn’t anything new - just yet. Nor has any company promising AGI (including Tesla) offered up material results. There’s also some question as to whether AGI, technologically glamorous though it may be, is better than highly specialised systems. If it can be done, however, there’s no doubt it’ll prove a remarkable deep-tech breakthrough.
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2022
$30m
GRANT
Mar 2022
$58.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $88.5m
Company values
- We are Mission-Drive: With one objective: to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots. Mission success is the only arrow on the compass that guides our work. To be first, we must act with unwavering urgency, in everything we do
- We Rise to the Challenge: What we are doing has never been done before. We embrace the magnitude of our mission and face it head-on, with tenacity, speed, and positive determination. We do whatever it takes to ensure we hit our milestones on the road to mission success
- We Row Together, We Win Together: No matter how great our facilities or capital, we will always maintain the humble mentality of a small, wooden rowboat. Our strength comes from forcefully rowing together towards the same common goal, with each one of us pulling their weight. We stay steady on the course as a team–impervious to distractions and relentless against waves–to reach our destination
- We Act Responsibly: In everything that we do, we take matters of safety, security, confidentiality, privacy, and trust very seriously
- We are a Sanctuary: For our employees and for the future. We are a group of technologically-aligned people, working together with high principles and utmost confidentiality within our Sanctuary. When we successfully achieve our mission, we will provide a Sanctuary for generations to come, with solutions to many of the greatest threats to our way of life
Company HQ
Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, BC
Articles
Founders
Geordie Rose
(CEO)A Doctor of Theoretical Physics, who subsequently founded and served as CTO of quantum computing systems and software company D-Wave Systems, before moving on to co-found Kindred.ai.
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