Senior Motion Planning Engineer

Your Role Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy advanced motion planning algorithms for mobile robots and manipulators across navigation and manipulation domains.
• Develop optimization‑based planners, including defining cost functions and constraints suitable for embedded robotic systems.
• Implement production‑ready software in C++ and Python, with strong focus on testing, validation, and maintainability.
• Develop, integrate, and debug ROS2 nodes within complex robotic systems.
• Own and drive technical objectives, aligned with the squad roadmap and overall product strategy.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues spanning robotic software stacks and hardware platforms, from prototype to production.

Required Technical Professional Expertise

• Strong hands‑on experience in robot motion planning, including navigation, obstacle avoidance, and manipulation.
• Solid background in numerical optimization applied to motion planning problems.
• Proven expertise in C++ and Python, with experience deploying software in production environments.
• Practical experience with NumPy, PyTorch, or JAX.
• Ability to work independently and drive complex topics end‑to‑end.
• Hands‑on experience with ROS2 development and integration.

Nice to have:

• Experience with GPU development, particularly on NVIDIA Jetson platforms.
• Exposure to generative models, such as flow‑based models.
• Experience working with humanoid robots.
• Familiarity with NVIDIA Omniverse or comparable simulation environments.