Senior Robot Autonomy & Planning Engineer

LightSpeed Photonics Pvt. Ltd.; Northbrook (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Benefits package

Hands-on robotics environment

Job summary

LightSpeed Build Technologies seeks a Senior Agentic Planning Engineer to own how our robots decide next actions, from primitive contracts to end-to-end tasks on real systems. You will design planners, teach policies, and ensure safe recovery across two robot families working on wall panel and on-site assembly projects.

You will collaborate across teams to implement two-layer planning, integrate with perception and control, and drive autonomous operation in production environments with

Qualifications

• 5+ years building autonomy and planning systems for robots in production.
• Task-level planning on real robots: behavior trees, TAMP, HTN or similar.
• Execution monitoring and fault recovery in a deployed system.
• Built interfaces between planning, perception and control that other teams built against.
• Hands-on with reasoning models or LLMs in a decision loop, and a clear view of where they help and where they don't.

Responsibilities

• Define primitives and their contract for robot actions.
• Design the interface between the planner and the executor: step request, policy choice, result and evidence.
• Build the planner in two layers: reasoning for open-ended decisions and solvers for reach, collision and trajectory.
• Decide when to use a reasoning model and when not to; keep it off the real-time control path.
• Extend the planner's reasoning and sequencing for new trades; measure success by faster teaching of new tasks.
• Build the execution monitor: verify each step, retry, switch executor, skip and flag as needed.

Skills

Autonomy planning experience

Task planning for robots

Reasoning models in decision loops

Python

C++

ROS2

Linux

Docker

CI/CD

Education

MS/PhD in Robotics, CS, AI or related field

Tools

MoveIt

OMPL

ROS2

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

LightSpeed Build Technologies seeks a Senior Agentic Planning Engineer to own how our robots decide next actions, from primitive contracts to end-to-end tasks on real systems. You will design planners, teach policies, and ensure safe recovery across two robot families working on wall panel and on-site assembly projects.

You will collaborate across teams to implement two-layer planning, integrate with perception and control, and drive autonomous operation in production environments with