Robotics Software - Planning & Controls Engineer

The role

You will develop and deploy planning and control techniques for manipulation and navigation in dynamic outdoor environments. You will work on trajectory generation, scalable planning representations, and real-time closed-loop control.

What you will do

• Develop and deploy state-of-the-art planning and control techniques for manipulation and navigation problems.
• Drive the technical approach with a focus on real-world deployments.
• Research and develop techniques for generating real-time, safe, efficient trajectories for robot manipulators and mobile robots.
• Develop scalable planning representations for classical and learned techniques.
• Leverage GPUs to generate and evaluate trajectories at scale.
• Enable real-time, closed-loop control leveraging classical algorithms and ML.
• Develop simulation techniques and metrics to benchmark and evaluate performance.
• Collaborate with other teams in the company.

Required qualifications

• M.S/Ph.D degree in robotics, vision, computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or other engineering disciplines (or equivalent experience).
• 4+ years of hands-on experience developing planning/control solutions for robotics applications like manipulation and navigation.
• Experience working on one or more of trajectory generation, optimization, sampling, cost/reward shaping and control.
• Experience working with robotics simulation infrastructure (e.g. Isaac Sim, Gazebo).
• Proficient with C++ and comfortable with Python.
• Should be comfortable taking ownership of tasks with light supervision.
• Must have excellent problem-solving skills.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

About the company

Gritt is an intelligent system that combines robotics and AI to build infrastructure. The founding team includes experts from Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and MIT.