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Robotics Software - Planning & Controls Engineer

South San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-26 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop and deploy state-of-the-art planning and control techniques for manipulation and navigation in dynamic outdoor environments for autonomous robots.

Role type

Senior IC robotics software engineer (planning & controls)

Builds

Autonomous robot systems for construction infrastructure (solar, etc.)

Domain

Robotics, AI, Construction Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

trajectory generation, optimization, sampling, cost/reward shaping, control algorithms, robotics simulation, C++, Python, GPU computing

Preferred skills

classical algorithms, machine learning integration, simulation benchmarking

Technologies

Isaac Sim, Gazebo, GPUs

Responsibilities

Develop scalable planning representations for classical and learned techniques; Enable real-time, closed-loop control leveraging classical algorithms and ML; Develop simulation techniques and metrics to benchmark and evaluate performance

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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