Senior Motion Planning Software Engineer

What You’ll Accomplish:

• Design, implement, and optimize motion planning algorithms for an autonomous robotic manipulator.
• Research and develop cutting edge techniques to enhance the safety and speed of our robot.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate your contributions into the broader hardware and software system.
• Iterate, test, and tune solutions to improve performance and reliability of the mobile manipulation system, both in simulation and on a real robotic system.
• Play a key role in designing and contributing to the architecture of scalable software systems that support the deployment of multiple robots in diverse and dynamic environments.
• Act as a mentor to other software engineers to improve the team’s overall capabilities in planning and manipulation.

Who You Are:

• A software engineer with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics or similar field and at least 5 years of industrial experience or a Masters Degree or higher with relevant mix of academic and industrial experience in working with autonomous robots.
• Experienced with motion planning for robotic manipulators, with a strong understanding of dynamics.
• Experience with computational geometry and fast collision checking is a plus. 
• Experienced in working with complex algorithms and capable of optimizing for performance and reliability.
• Proficient in Python.
• Experience in other relevant languages is a plus.
• Collaborative and communicative, focusing discussions on problem solving ideas and experiments to drive product innovation.
• Detail-oriented, but with a system level mindset. Capable of debugging complex problems while maintaining system integrity.
• Willing to work in-office from our Cambridge, MA location at least three days per week. 
• Adaptable and eager to learn, staying up to date with the latest advancements in robotics and motion planning.