Primary Job Function

• The Engineer in this role will work with a multidisciplinary team to develop motion planning software and algorithms for robotic manipulation applications related to store replenishment and e-commerce order fulfillment.
• This candidate will be expected to be a primary contributor and leader driving to real-world customer delivery, acceptance, and operation.

Skills/Technical Requirements:

• Masters or PhD in Computer Vision, Robotics, or closely related field
• 8+ years experience in software development
• Experience in designing and implementing motion planning solutions for manipulation related problems on real robotics systems
• Fundamental understanding of controls for manipulation including trajectory smoothing and timing with constraints
• Commercial experience in a fast paced, agile environment
• Ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team

Demonstrated ability to

• Apply motion planning algorithms to real-world manipulation problems
• Ability to synthesize approaches to problems from new or existing techniques
• Write smoothing or time-parameterizing libraries that assign dynamically feasible velocities and timings to kinematically feasible paths for a robot arm.
• Provide technical leadership on key projects
• Architect software solutions
• Operate autonomously
• Develop on and debug real robotic systems
• Determine and communicate justification of technical priorities to management
• Mentor
• Manage execution of technical efforts across a small team

Proficient in

• Motion planning libraries (e.g. OpenRave, OMPL, DART, SBPL, prpy, etc)
• Controls
• Python
• C++
• System design
• Design patterns
• VCS (Git)
• ROS
• Issue tracking system (Jira)
• Design patterns

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated abilities in one or more of the following
• Trajectory generation and execution for 6-DOF manipulators
• Post processing of trajectories (shortcutting, jerk-limiting, etc.)
• Formulated optimization problems to time-parameterize paths
• Robot DSL Familiarity (RAPID, Karel, KRL)
• API development (RESTful, websockets)
• Robotics and robotic solutions
• Parallel/distributed systems
• Asynchronous/concurrent programming (asyncio)
• NoSQL databases (MongoDB)
• Messaging Systems (gRPC, Kafka)
• CI/CD (Jenkins, automated testing)

Educational Requirements: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or closely related field

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