Thesis at ZYGO
About ZYGO
ZYGO is a fast-growing robotics software company building ZYGOS, a skill-based platform that enables robots to adapt, learn, and operate in complex environments. Our robots are deployed in industries where reliability, autonomy, and intelligence truly matter.
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Master thesis at ZYGO
Are you a student looking to spend your thesis on something that runs on real robots, in real environments, with real operational stakes? Good. That's exactly the kind of work we do at ZYGO.
We build ZYGOS, the robot-agnostic operating system behind ZYGO Protector, Inspector, and other AI Agents. Our software runs on quadrupeds, on marine drones, and on other robot models. There's no shortage of hard problems, and most of them are practical, not theoretical.
What you get
- Practical experience on systems that go into real enterprise deployments.
- A small, senior engineering team who actually have time to mentor you.
- Access to a serious tech stack: NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, CUDA, TensorRT, Isaac Sim, ROS2, modern C++, embedded Linux.
- A team that's open to your ideas.
- Membership in the NVIDIA Inception program and exposure to how a deep-tech startup actually operates.
Where we'd love thesis work
Our stack spans four verticals: Cloud, Embedded Linux, Robotics, and Navigation. Thesis topics tend to land in one of these areas.
Robotics & navigation
- SLAM and localization for outdoor robots in changing weather, light, and seasonal conditions.
- Sensor fusion across camera, LiDAR, radar, and IMU for resilient perception in adversarial environments.
- Path planning and behavior arbitration on quadrupeds operating in unstructured outdoor terrain.
- Long-deployment mapping: semantic maps, change detection, and map maintenance across weeks or months.
Perception & AI
- Object detection and classification tuned for latency and edge-case robustness, not benchmark scores.
- Anomaly detection for perimeter security: spotting what shouldn't be there, at 3am, in the rain.
- Sim-to-real transfer using Isaac Sim and synthetic data generation for rare-event training.
Embedded Linux
- Low-latency perception pipelines on Jetson AGX Orin with TensorRT and CUDA optimization.
- Reliable inter-process communication on embedded ROS2 systems under real workloads.
- Power, thermal, and runtime profiling on quadruped compute payloads.
Cloud & fleet
- Fleet management for heterogeneous robot platforms (quadrupeds, marine drones).
- Telemetry pipelines and automated compliance documentation from raw robot logs.
- Simulation infrastructure that lets us reproduce field incidents in Isaac Sim.
Bring your own idea? Even better. If it touches autonomous outdoor systems, we want to hear it.
Who we're looking for
- Students in computer science, robotics, electromechanics, mechatronics, AI, or related engineering disciplines.
- Comfortable in C++ or Python, depending on where you want your thesis to live.
- Bonus: prior exposure to ROS2, embedded Linux, deep learning frameworks, or simulation tooling.
Why ZYGO?
- We're still small enough that you'll shape what ZYGO becomes.
- A team that's actively implementing the latest tech to create Physical AI Agents.
- Lots of learning potential with lots of technologies and senior team members.
- Professional workplace despite the fast-paced growth trajectory.
- Have a real-world impact on jobs that are under a lot of pressure.
- No traffic jams on your way to work and no wannapreneurs next door.
