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Ghost Robotics

Robot type
Defense
Location
PhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Sep 11, 2026
Salary
$140,000–$185,000 a year
Full-time

Robotic Software Engineer - (Senior, Staff, Lead) Manipulation

Job description

We're a robotics company building autonomous systems that operate in complex, dynamic environments. We're hiring a Manipulation Engineer to design, implement, and deploy manipulation algorithms for arms mounted on dynamic legged robots operating in the real world. You'll build task and motion planning, grasping, and control pipelines in real-time software, and own their performance all the way down to hardware. This role suits engineers who thrive on high-velocity problem solving, deep technical ownership, and hands-on testing and validation.

How leveling works This is one role, open at the Senior, Staff, or Lead level. The responsibilities below reflect the core of the role at every level.

Job responsibilities

  • Architect end-to-end manipulation frameworks, from high-level task planning down to perception and low-level joint control
  • Develop trajectory planning, obstacle avoidance, and real-time motion generation
  • Implement grasping strategies using proprioception and vision, for rigid and deformable objects
  • Use physics-based simulators to develop and validate manipulation policies with high-fidelity transfer to hardware
  • Write clean, maintainable C++ and Python, and debug system performance across simulation, hardware experiments, and fleet data
  • Collaborate with mechanical, perception, embedded, and systems teams to ensure end-to-end performance and robustness
  • Contribute to long-term architectural decisions

Job requirements

  • A strong background in robotic manipulation, with hands-on experience on multi-DOF arms in real systems. We weigh what you've built and shipped over where your degree is from.
  • Strong foundations in motion planning, control theory, optimization, and dynamical systems
  • Deep understanding of coordinate transformations, forward/inverse kinematics, Jacobians, and robot dynamics
  • Experience with motion planning tools (e.g., MoveIt, OMPL, or custom optimization-based planners)
  • Experience with multi-body dynamics, modeling, and simulation (e.g., MuJoCo, Gazebo, Isaac, Bullet/PyBullet)
  • Experience with ROS 2 and real-time middleware
  • Proficiency in modern C++ (C++17/20) and Python
  • Experience with Unix/Linux environments and software engineering best practices (version control, CI/CD)
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