Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Motion Planning

• Own planning scene and collision-checking integration for robotic manipulation workcells, including robust world modeling updates and constraint handling
• Develop and tune motion planning pipelines (e.g., OMPL-based sampling planners and/or trajectory optimization approaches) to improve success rate, cycle time, and recovery robustness
• Define collision avoidance strategies and performance guardrails, including discretization tolerances, validation thresholds, safety buffers, and regression criteria
• Integrate trajectory generation with low-level controllers and execution systems, ensuring correct interfaces for joint trajectories, gripper actions, and execution monitoring
• Build reliable recovery behaviors for plan or execution failures, including re-planning strategies, safe retreat logic, and consistent fault reporting for downstream analysis
• Partner closely with AI/ML and validation teams to define upstream and downstream interface contracts and translate field failures into continuous planning improvements

• B.S. or M.S. in Robotics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience developing motion planning and collision avoidance systems for robotic manipulators, with deployment exposure in real-world workcells
• Strong programming experience in C++ and/or Python with solid software engineering practices in multi-module robotics systems
• Hands-on experience with planning frameworks and collision-checking concepts (e.g., MoveIt planning scene, collision world, planner interfaces)
• Experience integrating planning systems with controllers and execution layers, including trajectory execution, controller configuration, and runtime monitoring
• Strong hardware debugging skills including logging, root cause analysis, and systematic performance tuning

• Production experience with ROS 2 and MoveIt2, including planning scene updates and controller integration
• Experience working in dynamic environments (moving obstacles, human-aware constraints) and integrating safety considerations
• Familiarity with industrial robotics integration patterns, including PLC interfaces, safety-rated stops, and cell interlocks
• Experience developing integration or system tests for multi-node robotics systems

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