Jobs in Ferndale, MI

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

- Strong ROS/ROS2 experience

- Proficiency in C++ and/or Python

- Experience with SLAM, navigation stack, and sensor fusion

- Hands-on hardware integration experience

- Debugging in real-world environments

- Reinforcement learning

- Multi-robot systems (Swarm cases)

- Cloud integration (MQTT, telemetry)

- Manufacturing or warehouse automation exposure

Roles & Responsibilities

Robotics Engineers with strong hands-on expertise in ROS/ROS2 to build and deploy real-world Physical AI solutions in manufacturing and enterprise environments. This is a build-and-deploy role, not research-only.

Responsibilities:

- Develop robotic applications using ROS/ROS2

- Implement navigation, SLAM, perception, and autonomy

- Integrate sensors (LiDAR, IMU, depth cameras) and actuators

- Work with robotic arms, mobile robots, AGVs, or quadrupeds

- Deploy solutions on edge devices (Jetson or similar)

- Support simulation (Gazebo/Isaac)

- Collaborate with AI and platform teams for connected robotics use cases

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

- Experts who have deployed real robots (not just simulations)

- Strong system thinking and problem-solving mindset

- Ability to operate in fast-paced innovation environments

We are seeking a Senior Robotic Simulation Engineer with deep, hands-on expertise in building high-fidelity simulation environments and synthetic data pipelines using NVIDIA Isaac Sim or similar.

In this role, you will directly contribute to the development of scalable, realistic virtual worlds that power the training and validation of robotic foundation models for perception, planning, and manipulation.

At GM’s manufacturing technology development team, you’ll work closely with robotics and AI teams within the Manufacturing Technology Development (MTD) team to create simulation scenes that replicate complex manufacturing environments, generate diverse synthetic datasets, and build robust data workflows that accelerate model development and deployment.

Key Responsibilities • Build and customize simulation scenes in Isaac Sim that accurately reflect real-world robotic tasks and factory layouts • Develop synthetic data generation pipelines, including randomized object placement, sensor simulation, and multi-modal annotations (RGB, depth, segmentation, point clouds) • Implement and maintain data processing workflows, ensuring data quality, traceability, and compatibility with ML training pipelines • Optimize simulation performance and realism, tuning physics parameters, asset fidelity, and rendering configurations for scalable experimentation • Collaborate with robotics engineers and ML scientists to align simulation outputs with model requirements and support sim2real transfer • Conduct hands-on testing and debugging, iterating on simulation setups and synthetic data strategies to improve model robustness • Document workflows and contribute to best practices, enabling reproducibility and knowledge sharing across teams Required Qualifications • MSc or PhD in Robotics, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, or related field • 3+ years of hands-on experience in robotics simulation, synthetic data generation, or virtual environment development • Proficiency with Isaac Sim, Omniverse, or similar simulation platforms • Strong programming skills in Python and C++, with experience in simulation APIs and data annotation tools • Familiarity with 3D vision, sensor modeling, and domain randomization techniques • Experience integrating simulation outputs into ML pipelines for training and evaluation Preferred Qualifications • Experience with robotics frameworks (e.g., ROS/ROS2, MoveIt, Nav2) • Experience with robotics simulation platforms (e.g., IsaacSim, MoJoCo, Gazebo) or Game engine (e.g., Unreal, Unity) • Background in industrial automation, autonomous vehicles, or robotic manipulation • Publications or contributions in simulation, synthetic data, or robotics venues (e.g.

ICRA, RSS, CVPR) • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern software development practices such as Bash, Github, Bazel, Docker

Title: Buyer - (Services Buying experience) (Need Local Candidates)

Location: Detroit, MI

Duration: 7 Months

Rate: $40-$45/Hour on W2

Job Summary:

Provide core management in the procurement of various commodities to achieve budget objects, supplier diversity and on-time delivery.

Support Supply Chain leaders, Strategic Category Manager(s), buyers and a predetermined business unit to achieve total cost management.

Other Qualifications:

Preferred:

• · Degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or Economics
• · Prior procurement experience in Solar / Renewable Energy components.
• · Yellow/Green/Black belt certification

Other Requirements:

• Demonstrate strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Intermediate skills in Microsoft applications (i.e: Excel, PowerPoint, & Word)
• Demonstrates an ability to manage multimillion dollar contracts, consistent positive business unit and warehouse feedback, little rework, meeting deadlines, taking on additional work, working independently on routine tasks, and effectively prioritizing tasks to meet business needs and deadlines.
• Strong negotiation skills and contract writing, evident through successfully and independently negotiating less complex contracts, including the terms and conditions, building relationships with our business unit partners and vendors, independently completing purchase agreements, crafting service agreements, and reviewing peers' contracts for compliance with client's requirements
• Demonstrates an understanding of risk management, value analysis and proper decision making through ensuring terms and conditions are complete and accurate, appropriately analyzing tradeoffs, consequences and liabilities of actions, knowing when to escalate issues to leadership or experts, and independently making good decisions in routine situations.
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of business needs and the organization as a whole, as demonstrated by participation in business unit meetings, placing orders within requisition and funding requirements, and exhibiting general knowledge of the current market.
• Demonstrated application of continuous improvement tools, systems and processes
• Demonstrates an understanding of procurement for solar materials and working directly with EPC contractors.