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$155,000 – $241,000
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What this role is
This role leads the development of real-time motion planning and navigation systems for humanoid robots operating in logistics and manufacturing environments. It suits experienced robotics engineers who want to own critical systems that enable autonomous locomotion, collision avoidance, and multi-robot coordination at scale.
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What they ask for
Required
- 5+ years developing and deploying real-time navigation and motion planning for autonomous mobile platforms
- Expertise in 3D/volumetric map representations for local path planning and collision avoidance
- Deep understanding of locomotion-specific path and motion planning algorithms including sampling-based and optimization-based methods
- Expert proficiency in modern C++ (C++17/20) for high-performance multithreaded robotics code
- Experience with ROS/ROS2 and modern optimization libraries for motion planning
- Proven ability to systematically test and debug systems on physical robots and integrate sensor data into planners
Nice to have
- Experience training and deploying RL agents for complex locomotion behaviors
- Hands-on experience implementing MPC or similar optimization-based control for robot locomotion
- Familiarity with perception pipelines and integration into planning stacks
- Experience with GPU-accelerated spatial data structures for map updates
- Strong knowledge of robot kinematics, dynamics, controls, and state estimation
- Experience with multi-robot coordination and route planning
- Experience with multi-robot mapping, localization, and map sharing
- Publications in top-tier robotics conferences (ICRA, RSS, IROS, CoRL)