# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning

Hiring organization: [Agility Robotics](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/agility-robotics)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/9bda5a45-8913-48b7-929d-089484f725d7

Listed on Agility Robotics's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 216000 – 337000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads the motion planning architecture for humanoid robots deployed in real-world warehouses and factories, requiring someone with deep expertise in trajectory optimization, collision avoidance, and multi-DOF manipulation systems. You'll set the technical direction and work across perception, controls, and autonomy teams to solve the hardest problems in commercial robot deployment at scale.

_Our summary, not Agility Robotics's wording._

## Skills named

C++, Python

## Required

- High-DOF robot manipulation algorithm development and deployment
- Real-world commercial mobile manipulation robot deployment
- Sample-based motion planning, trajectory optimization, and MPC in production
- Planning and optimization under geometric and kinodynamic constraints
- Advanced mathematics in search and numerical optimization
- Modern C++ (C++17/20) and Python for real-time, multithreaded robotics
- Architecture of large-scale autonomy systems with clean interfaces across perception, estimation, planning, and control
- Technical leadership on complex robotics systems with mentoring experience

## Nice to have

- Humanoid or humanoid-like robot experience
- Loco-manipulation planning
- Whole-body model predictive control or trajectory optimization
- Task and motion planning under uncertainty
- Machine learning or offline trajectory optimization for online planning acceleration
- Perception and scene understanding for motion planning
- Publications in top robotics venues (RSS, ICRA, IROS)

Apply on Agility Robotics's site: https://www.agilityrobotics.com/about/job-post?gh_jid=6007559004