Recruitment

How to Join Us

UTRA Robosoccer is happy to accept anyone from any discipline and country to join our team. We accept people 24/7

• Check out the available positions here (https://github.com/utra-robosoccer/soccerbot/wiki)
• Read the position descriptions below
• Fill out the form here (https://forms.gle/3HNN2pbgYCJNixCq9)

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Administrative Team

Executive Director

• Can be from any discipline
• Keeps track of deadlines
• Syncs weekly with other team leads and administrative team
• Motivates and pushes teammates
• Registering for competitions
• Communicating with Robocup committee
• Communicating with Professors and UofT
• Communicating with other RoboCup teams
• Time Commitment: 1-2 hours a week

VP Marketing

• Can be from any discipline
• In charge or recruitment
• Manages Facebook
• social events
• Advertising
• Tutorials
• Robosoccer hackathon
• Time Commitment: 1-2 hours a week, busier during trip planning and registration

VP External

• Can be from any discipline
• Deals with sponsorships
• Does purchases and reimbursements for the team
• Communicates with companies and Robocup for deals
• Handles receipts and
• Purchasing flight tickets and itinerary for travel to Robocup
• Time Commitment: 0 hours a week, busier during trip planning and when needed

VP Webmaster

• Can be from any discipline
• Manages UTRAHumanoid website
• Manages Emails Accounts
• Time Commitment: Busy only during the start of the semester, afterwards 0 hours a week

Admin Team Member

• Can be from any discipline
• Role and specialization will be assigned later

Robot Team

Robot Hardware Lead

• ECE, Mech, Engsci discipline
• Chief integrator for embedded/electrical and mechanical design (needs to know and work on both)
• Work with Exec Dir to keep track of deadlines
• Designs, purchases and manages power, hardware, cabling and sensors for the new robot
• Mentors robot team members
• Requirements
  • Basic CAD experience
  • Basic Circuitry experience
• Time commitment: 5-10 hours per week

Electrical and Embedded Lead

• Can be from any discipline
• Designs, purchases and manages power, hardware, cabling and sensors for the new robot
• Mentors general robot memberos
• Requirements
  • C/C++ programming experience
  • Able to build circuits given a schematic and components
  • Knowledge of how devices communicate and experience at the hardware level (manipulating registers, etc.)
  • Must enjoy programming microcontrollers!
• Time commitment: 5-10 hours per week

Mechanical Lead

• Designs, CADs, and builds and replicates robots for the Robocup
• Can be from any discipline
• Time commitment: 5-10 hours per week

Robot Team Member

• Can be from any discipline
• Role and specialization will be assigned later

Software Team

Robot Software Lead

• Can be from any software related discipline
• Does the overall integration for all the software components,
• Will be familiar in a wide range of topics (AI, Computer Vision, Control)
• Will work on any component that needs working on
• Work with Exec Dir to keep track of deadlines
• Requirements
  • Note: Knowledge of algorithms is not required, as long as you have a motivation to learn
  • Python coding experience
  • Strong motivation to work and an eagerness to learn
  • Good ability to manage time.

AI Strategy Lead

• Can be from any software related discipline
• Uses and learns reinforcement learning or other AI methods to coordinate team strategy
• Works with robot communication to have effective team strategy
• Previous experience or course not required
• Requirements
  • Note: Knowledge of algorithms is not required, as long as you have a motivation to learn
  • Python coding experience
  • Strong motivation to work and an eagerness to learn
  • Good ability to manage time.

AI Controls Lead

• Can be from any software related discipline
• Uses and learns reinforcement learning and classical control and path planning techniques to improve walking and kicking, blocking and other actions
• Basic understanding of controls is required
• Previous experience or course not required
• Requirements
  • Note: Knowledge of algorithms is not required, as long as you have a motivation to learn
  • Python coding experience
  • Strong motivation to work and an eagerness to learn
  • Good ability to manage time.

AI Perception Lead

• Can be from any software related discipline
• Uses and learns neural networks or other deep learning techniques coupled with opencv to localize objects detected by the robot
• Basic understanding of geometry is required
• Previous experience or course not required
• Requirements
  • Note: Knowledge of algorithms is not required, as long as you have a motivation to learn
  • Python coding experience
  • Strong motivation to work and an eagerness to learn
  • Good ability to manage time.

Software Team Member

• Can be from any discipline
• Python coding experience
• Role and specialization will be assigned later