Robotics Motion Planning Engineer — Real-World Impact

Raise Robotics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Raise Robotics is seeking a Motion Planning Engineer to develop models and algorithms for safe, accurate robot trajectories. You will work with existing planning libraries and implement onboard motion planning stacks, with travel to customer sites worldwide.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of professional motion planning experience, expertise with articulated robots (6-DOF/7-DOF), and a track record of deploying robots in unstructured environments using perception.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years developing motion planning software in a professional setting.
• Expertise in classical motion planning for articulated robots (6-DOF/7-DOF, legged/humanoid) and related systems.
• Experience deploying robots to work in semi-structured and unstructured environments using perception.
• Experience developing ML models for trajectory generation using RL or IL.
• Familiarity with simulation tools such as Gazebo, Mujoco, or Isaac.

Responsibilities

• Work with existing motion planning libraries and develop custom motion planning algorithms for mobile manipulation.
• Create large scale simulations to test onboard behavior and use data analysis to interpret results.
• Collaborate with perception and control engineers to determine interface requirements for accurate and safe motion.
• Analyze logs and failure cases to make improvements.
• Build task level planning logic for mobile manipulation.

Skills

Motion planning software

Articulated robot planning

Unstructured environment navigation

Perception-driven deployment

ML-based trajectory generation

Simulation tool familiarity

Tools

Gazebo

Mujoco

Isaac

Job description

Raise Robotics is seeking a Motion Planning Engineer to develop models and algorithms for safe, accurate robot trajectories. You will work with existing planning libraries and implement onboard motion planning stacks, with travel to customer sites worldwide.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of professional motion planning experience, expertise with articulated robots (6-DOF/7-DOF), and a track record of deploying robots in unstructured environments using perception.