Robotics Planning & Controls Engineer | Real-World AI

Gritt; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Gritt is seeking an experienced Planning & Controls Engineer to join our early team. You will shape AI capabilities for our robots, tackling challenging planning and control problems in dynamic outdoor environments.

As a pivotal member, you’ll develop and deploy robust planning methods, leverage GPU-accelerated trajectory generation, and collaborate with multiple teams to push our product forward in real-world deployments.

Qualifications

• MS/Ph.D in robotics, vision, CS, ME, EE, or equivalent.
• 4+ years of hands-on planning/control in robotics.
• Experience with trajectory generation, optimization, sampling, cost/reward shaping and control.
• Experience with robotics simulation infrastructure (Isaac Sim, Gazebo).
• Proficient in C++ and comfortable with Python.
• Authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy planning and control techniques for challenging manipulation and navigation problems.
• Drive our technical approach, with focus on real-world deployments.
• Research and develop techniques around generating real-time, safe, efficient trajectories for multiple embodiments like 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.

Skills

C++

Python

Robotics

Planning & Controls

Trajectory Generation

Simulation

Education

MS/Ph.D in robotics or related

Tools

Isaac Sim

Gazebo

Job description

Gritt is seeking an experienced Planning & Controls Engineer to join our early team. You will shape AI capabilities for our robots, tackling challenging planning and control problems in dynamic outdoor environments.

As a pivotal member, you’ll develop and deploy robust planning methods, leverage GPU-accelerated trajectory generation, and collaborate with multiple teams to push our product forward in real-world deployments.