Hello, Please find below a description for a position in our Smalltalk team. ** 12-months Software Research Engineer Position for Service Robotics ** Context: The RoboShop Project The RoboShop project aims at providing the foundations for using robots as media in the customer relationship management (CRM). This work should provide a hardware and software platform to build experiments about robotic usage scenario related to shopping. This platform must be complete and used in a public demonstration at the end of the project by october 2013. Description The work to be carried out aims at providing a robust infrastructure (hardware and soft- ware) for robotic experiments related to services. The hardware part will mainly rely on an existing robotic platform which already integrate the most common sensors and actuators (Laser, Vision, infra-red, ...). The contribution will consist in integrating some new sensors. The main effort is therefore on the software part. Technologically it will imply to work with ROS (Robot Operating System) [ros08] and Pharo [pha08] as well as some robotic tools and algorithms: simulators (Gazebo, Morse), SLAM, ... [pha08] Pharo: a clean, innovative, open-source smalltalk-inspired environment. http://www.pharo-project.org/, 2008. [ros08] Ros: Robot operating system. http://www.ros.org/, 2008. Expected skills We are looking for a software developer with one or more of the following skills: - Robotics middleware (ROS, ...) - Control architecture for robotic systems - Object-oriented programming - Dynamic languages - Agile methodologies (XP, TDD, ...) Administrative information - Duration: 12 months - Starting date: 2012 October - Salary: 2 887 euros / month before taxes - Location: Douai (Lille area), France (no remote job possible) - Working Language: English or French Application Send a CV by mail to: Noury Bouraqadi (noury.bouraqadi@mines-douai.fr), Luc Fabresse (luc.fabresse@mines-douai.fr) Luc