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Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Navigation)

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-29 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop algorithms and real-time planning systems that translate mission objectives into safe, dynamically feasible trajectories for mobile robots, manipulators, and multi-robot systems.

Role type

Senior IC robotics navigation engineer

Builds

End-to-end autonomy workflows for mobile robots and multi-robot systems

Domain

Robotics, Autonomous Systems, Motion Planning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C++, Python, motion planning algorithms, trajectory optimization, ROS/ROS2, simulation-based validation, debugging autonomy behavior, safety-aware autonomy design, real-time system development

Preferred skills

learning-informed planning, foundation models for decision-making, model-predictive control, lattice planning, human-in-the-loop intervention workflows

Technologies

ROS, ROS2, Nav2, MoveIt, Drake, Autoware

Responsibilities

Develop costmaps, traversability models, and route-planning logic; integrate navigation modules with localization, mapping, and perception systems; evaluate navigation performance using simulation and field testing; analyze telemetry and logs to debug autonomy issues and tune parameters.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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