• The Engineer in this role will work with a multidisciplinary team to develop 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
• 12+ years experience in software development
• Experience in designing and implementing solutions for manipulation related problems on real robotics systems
• Experience in applying or implementing geometric algorithms to solve "real-world" problems
• Commercial experience in a fast paced, agile environment
• Ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team
• Demonstrated ability to
• Lead major sub-domains of the robotic manipulation problem
• Apply planning algorithms to real-world manipulation problems
• Ability to synthesize approaches to problems from new or existing techniques
• 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)
• Python
• C++
• System design
• Design patterns
• VCS (Git)
• Issue tracking system (Jira)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated abilities in one or more of the following
• Trajectory generation for 6-DOF manipulators
• Applying geometric algorithms to real-world problems
• Applying nonlinear or combinatorial optimization techniques
• 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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