Senior / Staff Robotics Engineer, Manipulation

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Advanced Motion Planning & Trajectory Generation: You will architect the algorithms that drive high-DOF arm motion in dynamic environments.
• Interaction Control & Compliance: You will develop the low-level control strategies that enable the robot to physically interact with the world safely.
• Teleoperation & Human-Robot Interface: You will build the mathematical engine behind our remote manipulation capabilities.

Job requirements

• Experience: Ph.D. in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, OR an M.S. degree with 4+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Applied Mathematics: Deep understanding of rigid body kinematics, dynamics, and 3D geometry. You are fluent in linear algebra and Lie theory for representing robot state.
• Modern C++ Expertise: You write production-grade, real-time C++. You are comfortable with modern standards (C++17/20) and libraries like Eigen, KDL, or Pinocchio.
• Planning Frameworks: Experience with motion planning libraries (e.g., OMPL, MoveIt, TrajOpt, or similar).
• Control Theory: Practical experience implementing PID, Impedance Control, or Model Predictive Control (MPC) on real hardware.
• Requires 5 days/week in-office collaboration with the teams.
• Physics Simulation: Experience tuning physics parameters in simulators like Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, or Gazebo to match real-world dynamics.
• Optimization: Familiarity with solvers like OSQP, Ipopt, or Ceres for trajectory optimization.