Software Controls Engineer

What You'll accomplish:

• Design, implement, and optimize motion planning and controls algorithms for an autonomous mobile robot.
• 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 mentor to other software engineers to improve the team’s overall capabilities in planning and control

Who You Are:

• A software engineer with Bachelors Degree and over 5 years of experience or Masters Degree or higher with equivalent years of experience working in robotics environments. Industry experience is a plus
• A graduate with at least a bachelor’s degree in robotics, computer science, or similar discipline. Master’s degree or higher is preferred.
• Proficient in Python. Experience in other relevant languages is a plus
• Experienced with motion planning and controls for robotics systems, with a strong understanding of robot kinematics and dynamics. Experience with mathematical optimization for motion planning is strongly preferred.
• Collaborative and communicative, focusing discussions on problem solving ideas and experiments to drive product innovation.
• Experienced in working with complex algorithms and capable of optimizing for performance and reliability.
• 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.