Senior Controls & Motion Planning Engineer - Remote

Thoro.ai; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & equity

Pre-tax health care

Flexible benefits

Life & disability insurance

Unlimited PTO

Remote option

On-site parking

Casual work environment

Job summary

Thoro.ai in Pittsburgh, PA is seeking a Controls/Motion Planning Software Engineer with 5+ years in robotics planning. You will lead a software team to design and implement planning algorithms for autonomous devices, on Linux, and collaborate across hardware and cloud systems.

The role emphasizes roadmap development, code reviews, and hands-on testing, with a path toward leading integration of sensing and control modules in AMR workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience developing robotic planning algorithms.
• Strong knowledge of grid-based global planning (A*, D*).
• Experience with local planning techniques (MPC, Lie-based).
• Linux-based development with Git, testing, and docs.
• Familiarity with Publisher/Subscriber architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop subsystem roadmaps to meet customer requirements.
• Manage the team to execute the roadmaps.
• Participate in software best-practices reviews via design and code reviews.
• Evaluate software through unit, regression, and on-robot testing.
• Investigate robot issues by analyzing logs.
• Help integrate and evaluate sensors and algorithms.

Skills

Robotics planning algorithms

Global planning (A*)

Local planning (MPC)

Linux development

Git & testing

Publisher/Subscriber architecture

ROS planners

OMPL

Indoor AMRs

Computational geometry

Non-linear optimization

Linear algebra

Tools

ROS planners

OMPL

Lie-based libraries

Job description

Thoro.ai in Pittsburgh, PA is seeking a Controls/Motion Planning Software Engineer with 5+ years in robotics planning. You will lead a software team to design and implement planning algorithms for autonomous devices, on Linux, and collaborate across hardware and cloud systems.

The role emphasizes roadmap development, code reviews, and hands-on testing, with a path toward leading integration of sensing and control modules in AMR workflows.