Manager, Robot Motion Planning

Svaya Robotics Pvt Ltd; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Svaya Robotics Pvt Ltd in Hyderabad, India, invites a seasoned professional to lead the motion planning stack for its collaborative and bimanual humanoid robots. You will steer development of efficient planning, motion control algorithms, and integration with perception and controls teams.

You will mentor engineers, establish best practices, and work with field teams to address deployment challenges, ensuring robust, reliable robot performance in real-world environments.

Qualifications

• Solid background in robot kinematics and dynamics.
• Experience implementing novel motion planning algorithms in production robotic systems.
• Proven ability to train and mentor engineers and lead teams in deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of motion planning stack across collaborative and bimanual humanoid robots.
• Drive development of efficient motion planning and control algorithms for manipulation and whole-body control.
• Collaborate with controls and perception teams to tackle deployment challenges.
• Deploy motion planning stack on robot on-board computer and integrate with digital twin data.
• Train and mentor engineers and establish best practices for robust, reliable performance.

Skills

Motion planning

Robotics

Team leadership

Kinematics & dynamics

Diagnostics & recovery

Digital twin integration

Job description

Svaya Robotics works at the cutting edge of embodied-AI robotics, with commercially deployed collaborative and bimanual humanoid robots operating alongside humans across demanding production setups. With our vertically integrated approach, spanning the entire robotics stack, we’re tackling toughest challenges in precision manipulation and safety, pioneering a new approach to automation – “your work your way” enabling flexible, scalable and resilient automation in any production setup.

Today our mission applies to manufacturing, but it is much broader than that. We envision a future where everything that needs demanding physical work will be done by human-centered robots with responsive autonomy capabilities operating across factories, logistics, warehouses and healthcare enhancing human potential and our team driven by unwavering passion is paving the way to that future!

About the Role

Svaya Robotics is adding a Manager, Robot Motion Planning, based in Hyderabad, India, you will lead development and implementation of motion planning stack across our collaborative and bimanual humanoid robots. You will drive development of efficient motion planning and control algorithms across manipulation, grasping and whole-body control. Working alongside controls and perception teams, you will drive the team to tackle some of toughest challenges faced in deployment, making robots adapt to real world dynamic constraints, task variations and environment uncertainty with utmost reliability. You will collaborate closely with hardware and software teams to deploy motion planning stack on robot on-board computer and drive integration with robot data and model (digital-twin) for robust fault detection, diagnostics and recovery. You will train and mentor engineers, establish best practices and work with field engineers to address deployment challenges and continuously improve system capabilities and performance. The ideal candidate will have solid background in robot kinematics and dynamics with demonstrated experience implementing novel algorithms in production robotic systems.