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    "position": {
        "id": "ON-AS-6602",
        "slug": "robotics-engineer-field-autonomy",
        "title": "Robotics Engineer — Field Autonomy",
        "division": "autonomous-systems",
        "region": "emea",
        "level": "senior",
        "location": "Helsinki, Finland",
        "site": "Robotics laboratory · field trials",
        "clearance": "None",
        "employment": "Full-time · On site with field work",
        "travel": "Regular — trial sites, including winter conditions",
        "reports_to": "Lead, Field Robotics",
        "featured": false,
        "summary": "Make autonomous ground platforms work outside, in weather, without a network. The gap between a demonstration and a deployment is the entire job.",
        "responsibilities": [
            "Develop perception, localisation, and planning software for autonomous ground vehicles.",
            "Own the degraded-conditions behaviour — snow, dust, occlusion, and loss of positioning.",
            "Lead field trials, including the instrumentation needed to learn anything from them.",
            "Integrate software with vehicle hardware and diagnose across that boundary.",
            "Keep the simulation environment honest against measured field performance."
        ],
        "required": [
            "Six or more years in robotics software, with real outdoor deployment experience.",
            "Depth in at least two of: perception, state estimation, motion planning, controls.",
            "Strong C++ and Python, and the debugging skill to work on a vehicle in the field.",
            "Willingness to spend real time outdoors in poor conditions.",
            "Full driving licence."
        ],
        "preferred": [
            "Experience with lidar-inertial or radar-based localisation in feature-poor terrain.",
            "Prior work on agricultural, mining, defence, or polar autonomy.",
            "Familiarity with functional safety for mobile machinery."
        ],
        "team": "Field Robotics runs from Helsinki with year-round access to genuinely hostile test conditions, which is why the group is there.",
        "notes": "Field trial periods are scheduled in advance and offset by recovery time.",
        "division_label": "Autonomous Systems",
        "region_label": "EMEA",
        "level_label": "Senior",
        "url": "role.php?job=robotics-engineer-field-autonomy",
        "apply": "mailto:careers@omninova.global?subject=Application%20%E2%80%94%20Robotics%20Engineer%20%E2%80%94%20Field%20Autonomy%20%28ON-AS-6602%29"
    }
}