Wearing multiple hats: this is a startup gig!My main responsibility is to lead product across the company.EthonAI develops accessible software tools that empower manufacturers to detect, monitor, and prevent quality losses at scale.

FOUND brings the digital consumer revolution to hiring. We turn the tables and have employers pitch opportunities to top talent. AI-based matching and gamified assessments make every interaction worthwhile and keep everyone happy. Very much unlike the usual job-platforms that spam people and expect them to apply blindly.

Grow and lead engineering team from embryonic to mid-size.Onboard and mentor junior and mid-career engineers.Serve as individual contributor, manager, and tech lead.Help secure funding from top-tier VCs.Perform and drive rapid MVP cycles to gain market traction and close customers.Identify and spearhead new product capabilities and application directions.Work closely with customers to determine and deliver evolving product requirements.Carry and foster a fast-paced, customer-focused, and generative engineering culture.

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Strengthen our strategy, grow our research portfolio, apply for and lead projects, strengthen and expand our educational offering, supervise and teach, cooperate with academic and industrial partners.

Bring insights from robotics to intelligent vehicle and advanced driver assistance systems, help shape R+D strategies, foster cooperation with academia.

Applying multi-objective control techniques to mobile manipulation, investigation non-holonomic path deformation techniques, participating in risk analysis for mobile manipulation systems.

Research on integrating task and motion planning with compliant whole-body control, implementation of open source extensible software for compliant whole-body control, supervision of MSc and PhD students, leading and proposing research projects, comparison and benchmarking of mobile robot path planning, creation and maintenance of IT infrastructure to support all of the above... and various other things I don't remember right now.

The same as when I became Research Associate there.

Integration and benchmarking of mobile robot path planning approaches using ROS and other open source frameworks. Adaptation of whole-body control to the PR2 mobile manipulator. Cooperation with Stanford University to publish an open source implementation of whole-body control. Advising on research and development needs in robot control and real-time systems.

Research on interweaved mapping, planning, and control of mobile robots, supervision of PhD and MSc students, starting up of research projects, helping with the lab's move from Lausanne to Zürich, educating people on software engineering and the benefits of open source, creation and maintenance of IT infrastructure to support all of this... and probably quite a bit more but it's been a while.

Help tie together a work package in a European FP6 project with 9 partners, foster cooperation between project partners, supervise research, develop and port motion planning and obstacle avoidance systems.

Research and development on mobile robot path planning and obstacle avoidance (PhD topic). Supervising BSc and MSc projects. Assist teaching (lectures, labs, course development) at BSc and MSc level. Assist in writing proposals. Help with coaching new PhD students.