Lunar Rover Simulation Engineer - Military veterans preferred

Title:

Lunar Rover Simulation Engineer

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: https: //www.nasa. at http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-viper-lunar-rover-to-map-water-ice-on-the-moon g ov/feat at http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-viper-lunar-rover-to-map-water-ice-on-the-moon u re/new-viper-lunar-rover-to-map-water-ice-on-the-moon at http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-viper-lunar-rover-to-map-water-ice-on-the-moon

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:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190027571.pdf

Must be US Citizen or Permanent Resident

Required Education, Experience, & Skills:

• B.S.inComputerScienceorRobotics
• 2 +yearsofexperience.
• 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

Other 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

You are submitting your information for consideration to a position that is currently available under the Intelligent Systems Research & Development Services (ISRDS) program at Ames Research Center, CA. If selected, your employment offer may be with KBR or one of our Team Member companies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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