Robotics Planning & Control Engineer — Real-World Autonomy

Coupang; Mountain View (WY); On-site; USD 164,000 - 282,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus: 0-20% of base salary

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life insurance

401K Plan with Company Match

Paid Time Off (PTO) 18-21 days per yr

12 Paid Holidays

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Coupang is seeking a Robotics Planning and Control Engineer to develop high-performance autonomy software for real-world robotic systems. You will own motion-planning and control stacks, transforming perception, goals, and constraints into safe, efficient robot behavior.

You will work with hardware, perception, systems and product teams to deploy robotics capabilities in industrial environments, bringing prototypes to production with rigorous validation and scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. with 2–4 years of experience in robotics, CS, mechanical or electrical engineering or closely related field.
• Strong foundation in robotics including kinematics, dynamics, state estimation, motion planning, trajectory optimization, optimal control and feedback control.
• Demonstrated experience developing planning and control algorithms for robot manipulators, mobile robots, humanoids, or other complex robotic platforms.
• Proficiency in C++, with experience writing maintainable, tested, and production-grade software.
• Hands-on experience with robotics open-source ecosystems and libraries such as ROS/ROS 2, MoveIt, cuRobo, Pinocchio, OMPL, Drake, Isaac Sim, or equivalent tools.
• Experience integrating and debugging a full robotic system across software, sensors, actuators, middleware, simulation and hardware.
• Real-world industrial robotics experience deploying, validating or supporting robots in manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, inspection, service or similar environments.
• Strong analytical, communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize motion-planning, trajectory-optimization, manipulation-planning, and feedback-control algorithms for robotic systems.
• Develop planning and control software for collision avoidance, constrained motion, grasping, manipulation, and task execution in dynamic environments.
• Integrate planning and control modules with perception, state estimation, kinematics, dynamics, simulation, and robot hardware.
• Build and maintain production-quality robotics software.
• Develop simulation, testing, and validation workflows that assess safety, robustness, latency, repeatability, and task success across operating conditions.
• Collaborate with hardware, perception, and system teams to define system interfaces, compute and sensor requirements, and deployment architectures.

Skills

C++

ROS/ROS 2

Motion planning

Robotics

State estimation

Python

Education

Master's degree or Ph.D. in Robotics/CS/ME/EE

Tools

MoveIt

OMPL

Drake

Pinocchio

CuRobo

Isaac Sim

ROS 2

Job description

Coupang is seeking a Robotics Planning and Control Engineer to develop high-performance autonomy software for real-world robotic systems. You will own motion-planning and control stacks, transforming perception, goals, and constraints into safe, efficient robot behavior.

You will work with hardware, perception, systems and product teams to deploy robotics capabilities in industrial environments, bringing prototypes to production with rigorous validation and scalable solutions.